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Posted date: Oct 08, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office - remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) empowers enterprises to run VMware workloads natively on Azure. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our AVS engineering team. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in high-scale, hybrid cloud environments and are passionate about improving service reliability, operational excellence, and customer experience.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.
Own the reliability, availability, and performance of AVS infrastructure and services.Lead incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex issuesDesign and implement automation to improve detection, mitigation, and recovery from service-impacting events.Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and telemetry systems to proactively identify and resolve issues.You participate in onboarding, code/design reviews, and regular meetings with the engineering teams that develop and manage those products. You independently develop code or scripts that automate the performance of repetitive and easily scalable operations processes. You design, develop, and maintain telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools that detail operations metrics. You develop, test, troubleshoot, and implement changes to optimize code and improve products. You respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Go, Powershell or PythonOR equivalent experience.2+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
2+ years of deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (preferably Azure) and virtualization technologies (especially VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX).Other Requirements:
Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceOR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,OR PythonOR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.Broadcom/VMware CertificationsSoftware Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15, 2025.
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