Overview

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Security boundaries have changed, and identity is the new perimeter. With such a shift, there is a strong emphasis on carefully analyzing, and in many cases, hitting Refresh on the components that comprise the enterprise identity and access management platforms as we know them. Microsoft is seeking an identity and security focused engineer to join the CISO organization as we undergo the journey to ensure that the right identities get access to the right resources at the right time, protected each step of the way. With your experience Active Directory (AD), in Microsoft Entra ID and Identity & Access Management, you will help steer our own identity-centric digital transformation and support hundreds of thousands of employees as they seek to empower every person on the planet to accomplish more. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical engineering for a cross-functional, highly visible, operations team supporting the Identity platform for Microsoft’s corporate network.

• Mentor and coach junior team members to achieve engineering excellence

• Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability and telemetry.

• Own, triage, investigate and resolve service issues with an emphasis on broad communications, learning & teaching throughout the process

• Read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, alerting and self-healing capabilities for platforms.

• Author functional and technical documentation. Communicate on a deeply technical level with product engineering, project management and operations teams to improve and optimize products, improve infrastructure, and evolve services.

• Partners with engineering teams and stakeholders understand requirements and translate them into actionable projects embodying SRE principles and efficient technical solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in identity technologies: Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Federation Services, Replication

• Strong knowledge on PowerShell/Scripting Knowledge, Windows Services infrastructure to automate day to day activities.

• Working/understanding of IAM (identity access management) tools Like MIM and Intermediate knowledge of SQL database • Extensive troubleshooting and debugging experience, coupled with the ability to understand and reason about interactions between complex systems.

• Solid understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability philosophies and best practices, along with the ability to analyze, decompose, design, and integrate systems or system architectures.

• Highly adaptable to changing circumstances; able to put the right amount of structure on ambiguous and fluid situations, perhaps with contradictory information.

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to exercise cross-team cooperation and influence, while maintaining empathy for customers and partners and keeping a higher-level perspective.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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