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We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.\nOffice 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.\nAt Microsoft, we can offer you a solid team, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users. The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation.The role emphasizes learning and guided contribution while building foundational skills in distributed systems, reliability, observability, automation, and live-site operations.\nAs 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.\n#DPG #DPGHiring\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nYou will develop a foundational understanding of distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale and the code that defines infrastructures.\n\nYou will develop an understanding of the code, features, and operations of specific products at scale as required to contribute to incremental improvements in product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability and/or performance.\n\nYou will help test basic changes to optimize code and improve the observability, reliability and operability of a defined range of platforms, system or product components or features with direction from other engineers.\n\nYou will support ongoing engagements with product engineering teams by participating in code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles,\n\nYou will develop an understanding of how to safely and reliably manage changes in production by using existing tools and automation to enable product engineering teams to implement changes across a defined range of components or features, with direction from other engineers.\n\nYou will use existing tools to troubleshoot problems or flaws affecting the availability, reliability, performance and/or efficiency of components or features with guidance from other engineers.\n\nYou will embody our culture and values.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nAssociate's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fieldOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field\nOR equivalent experience. \n\nOther Requirements:\nSecurity Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or\ngovernment security screening requirements as required for this role. These requirements include, but\nare not limited to the following specialized security screenings:\nThe successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Abilityto meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for\nthis role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening\nrequirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.\n\nClearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated securityclearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide\nclearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.\n\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloudbackground check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. \n\nCitizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship dueto citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal,\nstate, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain\ncitizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal\nrequirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or\nverified US government Clearance.\n\nThis position is part of a team providing operational coverage for Microsoft Government cloud environments. Engineers participate in a scheduled shift rotation designed to provide extended business-hour coverage. Shift assignments may include alternate schedules such as four 10-hour workdays or rotating coverage across multiple daily operating windows.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administrationOR equivalent experience. \n\n3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.\nSite Reliability Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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