Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Poly

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead a team that builds and operates Microsoft CISO security engineering services in highly regulated environments, including U.S. Government Cloud deployments. In this space, success requires both operational rigor and strong software engineering fundamentals, maintainable code, extendable design, robust telemetry, and disciplined lifecycle practices that make reliability a built-in feature.

Responsibilities

• Write secure, high-quality code that is maintainable, scalable, and performant.
• Architect, implement, and optimize hybrid and cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Containers, Bicep, Terraform, AKS etc.) to improve availability, scale, security, and operational efficiency.
• Design and implement data governance, storage, backup, and disaster recovery for a multi-petabyte Azure environment, ensuring integrity, security, and performance.
• Build and operate large-scale data pipelines and data transformations to support analytics, governance, and operational needs.
• Evaluate emerging engineering tools and practices and incorporate them into the roadmap to continuously improve efficiency, reliability, and scale.
• Deliver automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, telemetry, and alerting, with a focus on resiliency.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation and design specifications aligned with best practices.
• Partner with engineering, project management, and operations to evolve services and optimize infrastructure in support of organizational goals.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to operate live services; troubleshoot and mitigate complex issues, escalate as needed, and write post-incident reviews to share learnings.
• Identify opportunities for automation using scripts, pipelines, policy‑driven guardrails, or AI‑enabled tooling to reduce manual toil and increase engineering productivity.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications: Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ 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 equivalent experience.

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.

Skills

• 4+ years of experience building, deploying, and operating containerized applications and infrastructure as code (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps/AKS/ACI, Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM templates).
• 4+ years of experience writing and maintaining scripts for deployment, orchestration, and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Experience working with large datasets, data pipelines, and data transformation patterns (batch and/or streaming).
• Experience with one or more major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud).
• Hands-on experience with Azure services and infrastructure (e.g., ARM templates, IaaS, VMs, Key Vault, Event Hubs, Synapse, Spark/Hadoop), or equivalent services in AWS or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with data pipeline and transformation tooling (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) and operating at scale.
• Familiarity with large-scale Microsoft enterprise services (e.g., Microsoft 365: Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, Teams).
• Familiarity with petabyte-scale datasets and building reliable data pipelines and transformations that support mission-critical services.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., C# or Java) and scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, and Python.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.