Site Reliability Engineering II

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions.

The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.   

• 5 years of expert-level knowledge on identity technologies including Microsoft Entra IDAzure Active Directory, Active Directory, Federation Services, and Credential management, with proven experience in large-scale Identity management. 
• Ensuring the security of application authentication flows, managing the application lifecycle and credentials, overseeing application permissions and governance, and handling high-risk applications. 
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell/Scripting Knowledge and Windows Services infrastructure, enabling automation of day-to-day activities. 
• Demonstrated experience in supporting engineering and Multi-Factor Authentication, with a focus on maintaining Live Site operations and delivering exceptional customer service. 
• Extensive troubleshooting and debugging experience, coupled with the ability to understand and reason about interactions between complex systems. 
• Solid understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability philosophies and best practices, along with the ability to analyze, decompose, design, and integrate systems or system architectures. 
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to exercise cross-team cooperation and influence, while maintaining empathy for customers and partners and keeping a higher-level perspective. 
• Familiarity with Agile, SDL & SRE principles, Phish resistant certificate-based authentication, and Microsoft Entra IDAzure AD Multi-Factor Authentication solutions such as Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2 security key, OATH hardware/software token. 
• Experience with Windows Conditional Access policies and multifactor authentication, with a talent for quick problem analysis and decision-making. Experienced in managing large, complex programs, possessing strong interpersonal, group dynamic, written, verbal communication, and presentation skills. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Security boundaries have changed, and identity is the new perimeter. With such a shift, there is a strong emphasis on carefully analyzing, and in many cases, hitting Refresh on the components that comprise the enterprise identity and access management platforms as we know them.
• Microsoft is seeking an identity and security focused engineer to join the CISO organization as we undergo the journey to ensure that the right identities get access to the right resources at the right time, protected each step of the way. 
• With your experience in Microsoft Entra ID and Identity & Access Management, you will help steer our own identity-centric digital transformation and support hundreds of thousands of employees as they seek to empower every person on the planet to accomplish more.