Microsoft Senior Active Directory Site Reliability Engineer 

United States, Washington 

720095722

As a Senior Active Directory Site Reliability Engineer, you will provide leadership, direction and accountability for strategic application architecture plans, system design, and implementation. You will have opportunities to independently determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems in the portfolio, and operate our production services. Collaboration skills will be required working closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal stakeholders and external customers and users. You will identify and tackle high value engineering & software improvements using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and scalable system approaches.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
• 6+ years practical experience operating and designing Active Directory Domain Services (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Kerberos,Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM), Group Policy, Windows Time, Trusts, Delegation, Replication)
• 6+ years industry experience with PowerShell scripting/programming languages while having an understanding of network technologies and protocols, includingTransmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) andDomain Name System (DNS).

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• OR Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a sense of ownership and drive.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network architecture
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• Designs process or technology solutions that identify and resolve platform, system, deployment, and environmental issues prior to production release, and ensure an on-time release and measureable improvements against KPIs.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Communicates data and information among stakeholders and applies advanced diagnostic expertise during service issues to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business.
• Collaborates with Development, Test and PM counterparts to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into components of a service architecture and operability and customer scenarios that meet compliance standards and KPIs such as quality, cost, and customer expectation.
• Conduct periodic on call duties.

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