Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Microsoft - Redmond, WA
posted 1 day ago
About the position
Are you passionate about hardware and enabling new technology? Do you enjoy complex problem solving and investigation? Azure has one of the largest storage services on the planet, holding Exabytes of data and files not just for our 3rd party customers, but also many of Microsoft's own services. This role will focus on managing an ever growing and changing fleet at scale to maximize efficiency while providing a stable environment for our customers. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager in Azure Storage team you will be working with a team of engineers focused on optimizing fleet availability and health. Leading a team of engineers to design, develop and improve automation and uptime. You will take lead of planning, investigating complex issues and designing solutions to solve problems at scale. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your knowledge and experience with massive distributed systems. Opportunities to have significant impact on reducing cost to the business. Exposure and visibility at VP and CVP levels. This position is located in Redmond and has a flexible work environment that supports working from home.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and implement changes to optimize code and improve scalability.
- Leverage end-to-end technical expertise and telemetry analysis to identify patterns and opportunities to implement configuration and automation improvements.
- Review the effect of changes to documents and share development insights within your team.
- Drive Sprint planning, SCRUM stand ups, code/design reviews, and host regular cross team/org meetings.
- Investigate hardware and system issues that are impacting available capacity and impacting customers.
- Understand the long term goals of the organization and understand the steps your team will have to take to achieve those.
- Respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations and share details related to incidents and their resolution through post-mortem reports and regular review meetings.
- Help drive bridges for recovery during major outages.
- Embody our culture and values.
Requirements
- 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.
- 4+ years of Agile / SCRUM planning, and leading large cross team efforts.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Nice-to-haves
- 7+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering.
- Understanding of server architecture and the ability to debug and troubleshoot issues impacting the fleet.
- Understanding of server components, Firmware, BIOS and how they interact.
- Understanding management techniques, and methods for ensuring scope control.
- Familiarity with distributed systems.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year.
- 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
