Service Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Reston)

Service Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Reston

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

100600.00 - 199000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As a Service Engineer on the M365 AGC team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, security, and operational excellence of Microsoft 365 services in air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments. You will develop deep expertise in service and system design, understand dependencies at scale, and coordinate across multiple work streams to drive incident response, mitigation, and continuous improvement.

Job Responsibility:

Operate and support Microsoft 365 services in air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments, ensuring high availability and compliance with strict security standards
Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations by identifying the level of impact, troubleshooting incidents, and deploying appropriate fixes to resolve root cause(s). Shares details related to incidents and their resolution through postmortem reports
Monitors and acts on telemetry data. Performs analyses to identify patterns that reveal errors that are affecting the system's availability, reliability and performance with minimal guidance. Develops scripting and/or automation used in monitoring based on observations and experience
Implements reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions across teams. Owns implementation and rollback plans. Quantifies and ensures the health and compliance of a service with minimal guidance
Partner with engineering, program management, and security teams to deliver new features and maintain service parity with public cloud offerings
Engage with internal and external stakeholders to communicate service status, risks, and mitigation plans
Continuously assess and improve operational posture, adopting best practices for service engineering in regulated environments

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls OR equivalent experience
Hands-on experience supporting complex IT environments, with a strong understanding of system and service management challenges
Experience operating in large distributed or air-gapped environments, with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance
Ability to build consensus and influence across teams to achieve common goals
Recent experience with Azure or equivalent hyperscale cloud technologies
U.S. citizenship verification is required due to legal and customer requirements for this role
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including an active Top-Secret clearance with CI or FSP (if CI, willingness to upgrade to FSP) and successful completion of the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls OR equivalent experience
1+ year(s) technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 01, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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