Site Reliability Engineer II - CTJ - Top Secret

Microsoft is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join their Microsoft Defender engineering team, focusing on cutting-edge cloud security products. The role involves building and delivering cloud solutions while providing operational support and ensuring service stability in highly secure government environments.

Responsibilities:

• Live Site Operations: Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in a 24x7 on-call rotation, monitoring service health and responding to incidents within SLA timelines
• Automation & Deployment: Contribute to automation efforts and validate code functionality in non-production environments to ensure smooth deployments
• Compliance & Security: Support compliance processes by verifying security, privacy, and accessibility standards during onboarding of new technologies
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with industry trends and internal tools to improve reliability, performance, and observability at scale
• Engineering Best Practices: Apply proven development and scaling practices to meet performance and customer requirements
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Communicate effectively with engineering partners to align on goals and deliver user-centric solutions
• Incident Response & Postmortems: Address complex live site issues, implement mitigations, and document learnings through postmortems

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ 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
• 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 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 equivalent experience
• 2+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems