Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret

Microsoft is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Microsoft Defender engineering team, focusing on cutting-edge cloud security products. The role involves ensuring service reliability, supporting deployments, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance system stability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure 24x7 Service Reliability : Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in an on-call rotation, leading incident response and resolution to maintain uptime and performance for Microsoft’s most critical services
• Support and Automate Deployments : Execute and improve manual operations and deployments for our products, while designing automation to scale and streamline those processes across environments
• Build Scalable Systems : Develop automation for monitoring, alerting, debugging, and deployment to reduce manual effort and accelerate safe, reliable delivery
• Drive Compliance and Security : Ensure systems meet Microsoft’s standards for security, privacy, and accessibility, especially when onboarding new technologies
• Lead Post-Incident Learning : Conduct postmortems, share insights, and implement solutions that prevent recurrence—fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement
• Collaborate Across Teams : Partner with engineering and product teams to align reliability goals with customer needs and deliver seamless user experiences
• Stay Ahead Technically : Continuously invest in your technical growth to improve system availability, observability, and performance at scale

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ 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 equivalent experience
• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security 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
• 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 will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• Doctorate 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 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 8+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• 3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems