Site Reliability Engineer

Are you passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences and solving complex technology challenges? Join the Azure VMware Solution team, where we are dedicated to meeting customers on their cloud journey and providing hybrid solutions for VMware workloads. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer. Whether you love delving into computer operating systems, have a knack for automation of infrastructure development, or thrive on sharing and operationalizing your VMware expertise, we invite you to be part of our ambitious, diverse, and collaborative team. At Azure Specialized, we're not just solving problems – we're shaping the future of workloads on our Public Cloud platform and collaborating across Microsoft to deliver innovative solutions for Azure customers. Come be a part of the excitement and contribute to the next generation of cloud computing!Responsibilities

Develops end-to-end technical expertise in the architecture, code, features, and operations of specific products as required to implement improvements in product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance. Drives code/design reviews with the engineering teams that develop and/or manage those products and shares learnings and recommendations across engineering teams working on related products within their organization.

Leverages technical expertise in the infrastructure of large scale distributed systems and specific products, as well as objective insights drawn from analyses of production telemetry data to advocate for, or directly contribute to, changes to the code base to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of related sets of products developed and supported by teams within an organization.

Develops, tests, and implements changes to optimize code and improve the observability, reliability and operability of platforms, systems, and products at scale. Reviews the effect of these changes to document and share development insights within their team.

Engages with product engineering teams within an organization by driving code/design reviews, hosting regular meetings, and participating in on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles; leverages end-to-end technical expertise on underlying systems/platforms and insights from engagements with product engineering teams and telemetry analyses to propose scalable improvements in code and designs with attention to customer/business objectives and incident prevention.

Develops code, scripts, systems, or platforms that automate moderately complex but repetitive operations processes (e.g., monitoring, alerting, deploying products and updates, debugging) at scale; reviews existing automation code and scripts to evaluate reusability, extendibility, and scalability within an organization.

QualificationsRequired 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+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration

1+ year experience with VMware virtualization platform: ESXi, vCenter

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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:

VMware certifications related to ESXi, vSAN, NSX-T, HCX, SRM, VCF

2+ years of operational experience with some of the following VMware products: vSAN (Virtual SAN), NSX-T (NSX for DataCenter), HCX (Workload Migration / Mobility), SRM (Replication / DR), VRM (Replication)

#azurecorejobsSite Reliability Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-payMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .