Microsoft Site Reliability Engineer II - CTJ Top Secret 

United States, Virginia 

591691164

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.

The right candidate for this job (is):

• Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services
• Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them
• Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes
• Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
• Passionate about meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Security Clearance Requirements:Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements arefor this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Candidates must have an active TS and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements.You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will berequiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions whererequiredorpermittedby applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
• Familiarity with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell.
• Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack including O365, Azure, Windows or other Microsoft software/services.
• Experience leveraging cloud architecture, applying site reliability principles, and/or demonstrating sensitivity to operational concerns.
• Demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimize code Full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, management fabric, and distributed services layers.
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 24, 2024.

• Design, develop, and deliver the required software engineering to serve and protect O365 government clouds.
• Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for sovereign environments.
• Proactively identify and reduce issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Program Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases.
• Drive efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability.
• Work within a highly skilled team of engineers to deliver revolutionary improvements to the cloud and scale them.
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