Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

United States, New York, New York 

973241226

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years writing scalable tools using scripting languages like Python, Perl, and/or Go
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of troubleshooting and administering Dell hardware such as the PowerEdge C and R systems using out-of-band management tools such as iDRAC or OpenIPMI.
• 4+ years of experience in administering, deploying, and troubleshooting Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and operating container technologies, especially Kubernetes and Docker, in a distributed systems environment.
• 4+ years of developing Infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph and change automation using Terraform, Puppet, and/or Ansible.

Other Requirements:

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience and 5+ years writing scalable tools using scripting languages like Python, Perl, and/or Go.
• 5+ years of troubleshooting and administering Dell hardware such as the PowerEdge C and R systems using out-of-band management tools such as iDRAC or OpenIPMI.
• 5+ years of experience in administering, deploying, and troubleshooting Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and operating container technologies, especially Kubernetes and Docker, in a distributed systems environment.
• 5+ years of developing Infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph and change automation using Terraform, Puppet, and/or Ansible.
• 5+ years of experience in configuring, deploying, and optimizing observability and monitoring tools such as Nagios, Graphite, Prometheus, Grafana, tcpdump, Azure Data Explorer, and/or Splunk.
• 5+ years of configuring, troubleshooting, and deploying NGINX and NGINX-plus.
• 5+ years of experience in administering and configuring CDN properties in Azure Front Door, Akamai, Fastly, and/or Cloudflare.

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

• Engineer solutions for various projects and operational needs required by our customers. Perform code reviews to changes to the infrastructure configuration files and updates to tools libraries and APIs (Application Programming Interface).
• Manage remote servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Provide support to technical and non-technical customers from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues with hardware failures, application performance and software debugging. Coordinate and engage with other teams during incidents or planned maintenance. Handle escalations on technical issues and operations from global team members.
• Maintain ZFS (Zettabyte File System) storage clusters to ensure data redundancy and business continuity.
• Provide mentorship, coaching and guidance to teammates.
• Maintain documentation for the infrastructure software stack.