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Microsoft Senior Site Reliability Engineer 
United States, Washington 
922094788

21.01.2025



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+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fieldAND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
  • 3+ years of experience in one or more of cloud development, data analysis, security vulnerabilities, risk identification, anomaly detection, threat analytics, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Center (SOC) detection, security incident and event management (SIEM), operations incident response or ethical hacking.
  • 1+ years of experience with adversary and cyber intelligence frameworks.

Other Requirements:

  • The successful candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and have a U.S. Public Trust Position authorization. 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.
  • 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 customers 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:

  • Proficient in one or more cloud environments like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
  • Understanding with Google Workspace, Amazon, or CrowdStrike tools.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure services using ARM templates, IaaS, VMSS, KeyVault, EventHub, Azure Active Directory, Spark or Hadoop, or similar in AWS or GCP.
  • Understanding of security, encryption, PKI, modern authentication, and cloud app authorization architectures.
  • Knowledgeable about large-scale enterprise products like M365 (Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, Teams, etc.).
  • Scripting skills with one or more PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar.
  • Possesses existing US Government Secret clearance or is willing to apply post-onboarding
  • Good to have - CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification

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 January 30, 2025.

Responsibilities
  • Write secure, high-quality code with a focus on maintainability, scalability, and performance.
  • Analyze security threats to M365 and build monitoring components to address them. Identify and escalate detection issues (e.g., false positives, noise) appropriately.
  • Prioritize security incidents to minimize threats and vulnerabilities from monitoring data. Correlate security data from various sources to detect patterns and root causes.
  • Develop automation scripts to streamline security tasks and improve response times. Use machine learning and predictive analytics to foresee and mitigate potential security threats proactively.
  • Implement systems for automatic detection and remediation of security issues to ensure continuous protection.
  • Execute the DevSecOps approach by designing, coding, testing, deploying, and operating components of the Microsoft 365 security monitoring system.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation cycle.