Microsoft Principal Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ Top Secret 

United States, Virginia 

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The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you willand deliver software improvements using your

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 abottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment.
• Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.
• Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ 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 AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.

Other Requirements:

• Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
  • Candidates must have an active Top Secret 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.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • 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.

• 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 where required or permitted by 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:

• 9+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

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

  • OR Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

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 August 13, 2024.

• Design, develop, and deliver the required software engineering to serve and protect O365 government clouds.
• Own deployment, availability, reliability,performanceand customer escalation targets for sovereign environments.
• Proactivelyidentifyand 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.
• Embody our