Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Do you want to be at the center of Cloud Computing and work on services that touches every facet of Azure? Do you have the passion to work on products that make Azure “The Developer’s Cloud” - the place that every developer thinks first when they build their mission cloud application? The Identity team for the Azure Government Secret and Top-Secret Clouds will provide you that exposure and growth opportunity.

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.

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Responsibilities

Design, develop and deliver user-friendly, state-of-the-art Azure services to provide world-class user experiences on Azure. Work together with the team to ensure service quality, availability, and reliability. Participate in live-site and customer support to ensure customers using our services have a great experience. Engineers should expect to participate in a regularly scheduled on-call rotation.

Experience with service automation and buildout; i.e. ARM, BICEP, Cloud Formation.
Experience and passion for building highly scalable services.
Experience in object-oriented languages (like Java or C#) and related frameworks.
Experience with Kubernetes.
Experience working with critical services that require 24x7 availability.
Experience with critical service availability, disaster recovery, monitors and alerting.
Demonstrated problem solver, self-driven, long-term strategic thinker able to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends.
Experience with cloud infrastructures like Azure or AWS and open-source tools and frameworks are preferred.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience

Other Qualifications:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:  

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: 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.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.   
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ year experience writing detections within big data and SIEM solutions such as ArcSight, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Data Lake, or Azure Sentinel
• Solid understanding of AI/ML fundamentals, with experience in LLMs, prompt engineering, or autonomous agents
• Experience with Azure AI Studio or legacy Azure AI products is a plus
• Skilled working with extremely large data sets to answer complex and ambiguous questions, using tools and languages