Are you an individual who loves to work on large-scale projects at one of the most exciting and diverse divisions within Microsoft? Are you looking for big, creative challenges that show immediate results since your customers are the product engineers for Office and M365? Do you want to be at the core of it all, acting as a force multiplier enabling groups of engineers to do their best work? If so, we have the perfect job for you!   

The ES365 (Engineering Systems 365) team owns the tools that make up the end-to-end developer experience in Office and M365 (Substrate) from source control and check-in experience to build, validation, and deployment automation, and we’re making big, bold changes – for the better! We’re making it easy to build and ship apps across platforms and endpoints, and we’re moving away from proprietary, internal-only tools onto “one Microsoft” investments, open source, and industry standard tools. This is an exciting time as we seek to re-invent productivity leveraging the power of AI universally.  

We are looking for Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE) to join ES365’s Infrastructure teams. The charters of these teams include the following (and more):

• Azure management & governance

• Business continuity

• Infrastructure as Code

• Network engineering

• Provisioning & service deployment

• Security & vulnerability management

• Systems State Management

As one of our new SREs you’ll get to deliver novel solutions using a modern DevOps approach leveraging the full stack of technologies Microsoft has to offer to enable our organization to respond more effectively to evolving customer needs and market demands, all while reducing costs, eliminating duplicated work, and driving efficiencies through automation.

Microsoft’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

Responsibilities

• You participate in onboarding, code/design reviews, and regular meetings with the engineering teams that develop and manage those products.

• You independently develop code or scripts that automate the performance of repetitive and easily scalable operations processes. 

• You design, develop, and maintain telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools that detail operations metrics. 

• You develop, test, troubleshoot, and implement changes to optimize code and improve products. 

• You respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations.

• You will author technical documentation for your tools and services.

• You will participate in post incident reviews to drive service improvements.

Embody our culture and values .

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

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

OR Bachelor'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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

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

• 5+ years 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

• Full-stack troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, management fabric, and distributed services layers .

• Experience documenting complex systems accurately to convey technical ideas across teams.

• Experience in implementing and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for production services.

• Experience with one or more automation toolsor frameworks (e.g., Terraform, ARM, Chef, Bicep) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Powershell) or similar.

Site Reliability Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $83,600 - CAD $159,600 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft 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) .