Microsoft
Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Secret
$85K–$184K
Reston, VA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 2+ years with a Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience; alternatively, 3+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
- Education
- Associate's Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develop and operate software improvements for Office 365 government cloud services, supporting their reliability, availability, performance, and security.
What you'll do
- Test and contribute to changes that improve product reliability, observability, operability, and performance.
- Participate in code and design reviews, on-call rotations, and incident responses with product engineering teams.
- Use existing tools and automation to manage production changes and troubleshoot service issues, with guidance from other engineers.
What they ask for
- Associate's Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance.
- Meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship, subject to verification.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Pay
USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year (base salary); USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year (base salary)
Tools
Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams
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