Senior Active Directory Site Reliability Engineer

Our team is looking for a Senior Active Directory Site Reliability Engineer. Our mission is to improve the availability, latency, performance and security of the Identity systems behind Microsoft’s cloud. Like traditional operations, we keep important revenue-critical systems up and running, even when natural disasters, bandwidth outages and configuration problems occur. Unlike traditional operations groups, we identify and address these software problems directly thru software improvements, innovative machine learning and systems automation.

As a Senior Active Directory Site Reliability Engineer, you will provide leadership, direction and accountability for strategic application architecture plans, system design, and implementation. You will have opportunities to independently determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems in the portfolio, and operate our production services. Collaboration skills will be required working closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal stakeholders and external customers and users. You will identify and tackle high value engineering & software improvements using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and scalable system approaches. 

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network architecture
• Designs components of a service delivery system that defines tools, hardware, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation, resulting in complete system that supports service delivery and meets key performance indicator (KPIs).
• Desgin, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Microsoft’s Identity services.
• Designs process or technology solutions that identify and resolve platform, system, deployment, and environmental issues prior to production release, and ensure an on-time release and measureable improvements against KPIs.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Communicates data and information among stakeholders and applies advanced diagnostic expertise during service issues to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business.
• Collaborates with Development, Test and PM counterparts to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into components of a service architecture and operability and customer scenarios that meet compliance standards and KPIs such as quality, cost, and customer expectation.
• Conduct periodic on call duties.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.
• 6+ years practical experience operating and designing Active Directory Domain Services (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Kerberos, Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM), Group Policy, Windows Time, Trusts, Delegation, Replication)
• 6+ years industry experience with PowerShell scripting/programming languages while having an understanding of network technologies and protocols, including Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and Domain Name System (DNS).