Microsoft Defender is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to build and deliver cloud solutions for government environments, ensuring the stability, performance, and security of their cyber-security products against evolving threats.
Requirements
- 3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- 1+ year(s) people management experience
Responsibilities
- Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, you will be instrumental in delivering holistic protection within government environments.
- You will operate our production services, and work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, meet performance SLAs, and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.
- Lead Reliability Strategy
- Drive the vision and execution of reliability, performance, and security across critical systems and services. Influence product design and engineering decisions to ensure resilient, scalable infrastructure.
- Build and Scale Automation
- Champion intelligent automation (AI/ML-powered) for monitoring, deployment, and incident response to reduce manual overhead and accelerate safe delivery.
- Drive Operational Excellence
- Use telemetry and service-level data to guide improvements in availability, efficiency, and cost. Lead post-incident reviews and service improvement plans that restore customer trust and drive long-term resilience.
- Foster Engineering Partnerships
- Collaborate deeply with product engineering and security teams from early development through production to align on reliability goals and prevent recurrence of issues.
- Shape Technical Direction
- Guide architecture and tooling decisions across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. Promote adoption of best practices and scalable solutions across teams.
Other
- The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top-Secret Security Clearance.
- This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
- Grow and Empower Teams
- Attract, mentor, and develop high-performing SRE talent. Create a culture of inclusion, learning, and accountability that supports career growth and innovation.
