Service Engineer II - CTJ - TS/SCI
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Virginia, Reston | |
 Sep 11, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer II to join the Azure Silver and Sovereign Team as part of the Cloud Transfer Service (CTS) team. The Azure Cloud Transfer Service enables secure access and transfer between enclaves and supports other transfer and access types enabling a wide set of capabilities within highly regulated industries. We welcome you to meet the team and learn about the complex challenges you can solve with us! We are looking for engineers to join a fast-paced team and solve complex problems in the domain of mission-critical distributed systems spanning data transmission across clouds. Our team works across all facets of isolated system engineering but is deeply involved in the following areas: service automation and reliability improvements, systemic latency reduction, data validation and transformation, and throughput optimization. We need you to help us overcome these challenges. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build, deploy and support systems which enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems you support will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers. 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.
ResponsibilitiesTechnical Knowledge Demonstrates experience in service and/or system design, interactions between technology layers and components, functions of infrastructure, and dependencies at scale. Contributes to service design by identifying and recommending optimal configurations of technology components with awareness of cost management. Adjusts configurations and defines infrastructures to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance of supported products and services, with minimal guidance from other engineers. Actively participates in reviews with the engineering teams that develop and/or manage services and shares learnings and recommendations across engineering teams working on related services within their organization.Stays current in knowledge and expertise as technology landscape evolves. Contributes to the adoption of new solutions. Proactively seeks opportunities to learn and receive feedback.Collaboration and Knowledge SharingShares insights and best practices that can be applied to improve development and operations of the system, platform, or product components and features by participating in design reviews, incident drills and debriefs, and regular meetings, as well as interactions with more experienced Service Engineers and members of product engineering teams.Collaborates within and across teams by proactively and systematically sharing information with an appropriate level of detail for their audience. Proactively manages dependencies for their work with others.Operational Excellence Implements reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions across teams. Contributes to design documents. Owns implementation and rollback plans. Maintains quality checklist and related documentation with minimal guidance.Learns and adheres to prescriptive guidance for security, privacy, and compliance standards in alignment with direction from the business and technical experts. Works with security, privacy, and compliance teams to identify and address issues relevant to their services with minimal guidance.Monitors and acts on telemetry data and performs analyses to identify patterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems that are affecting the system's availability, reliability, performance, and/or efficiency, with minimal guidance. Develops scripting and/or automation used in monitoring based on observations and experience.Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations by identifying the level of impact, troubleshooting issues, and deploying appropriate fixes to resolve root cause(s). Alerts product teams and owners to major customer impacting issues and escalates resolution of complex and highly impactful issues affecting multiple components or features to other engineers or engineering teams as needed. Shares details related to incidents and their resolution through postmortem reports and during regular review meetings.Embody our Culture and Values | |