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Responsibilities
Technical Knowledge and Expertise
Develop an intermediate to expert level of understanding of physical access control service and system design, interactions between technology layers and components, functions of infrastructure, and dependencies at scale.
Contribute to the identification and recommendation of optimal configurations of technology components, adjust configurations, and define infrastructures to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance of supported services.
Share learnings and recommendations across engineering teams working on related services and invest time and effort to improve knowledge and contribute to the adoption of new solutions.
Operational Excellence
Assist in the implementation of reliable, scalable, high-performance solutions to support highly critical physical security systems. Contribute to the design and implementation of those systems and maintain quality control documentation in partnership with fellow engineers.
Respond to incidents during regular on-call rotations, alert stakeholders to major impacting issues, escalate resolution of complex or multi-component problems to fellow engineers, and ensure details related to incident resolution are shared
Develop an understanding of security, privacy, documentation, trainings, SOP, policy, and standards in alignment with direction from the business and technical experts. Partner with security, privacy, and compliance teams to identify, address, and develop guidance on issues relevant to their services, ensuring information is shared and dependencies managed across disciplines promptly.
Other
Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
OR equivalent experience.
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.
Preferred Qualifications
2+ year(s) technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
OR 2+ year(s) technical experience with an enterprise level physical access control system (Ex. LenelS2, Software House, etc.).
Management Information Systems (MIS), or other industry or product specific Engineering Certifications.
Experience and understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in an enterprise-wide environment (including migration of on-premises workload to the cloud, hybrid environments, multi-tenant environments).
Service Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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