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Overview: As a Principal SRE Manager, you drive the strategy and execution of reliability across Microsoft’s CO+I portfolio, guiding teams responsible for platforms, tooling, and data integrations. You partner with SRE, product engineering, security, and operations to set a clear technical direction and multi-team roadmaps. You ensure secure, observable, reliable, and cost-efficient platforms while scaling engineering best practices. This is a high-impact role shaping core infrastructure for leading online services and datacenters.
Responsibilities: Lead through managers and technical leaders to build a high-performing SRE organization and develop leadership capability Define technical strategy and roadmaps for SRE platforms and tooling across organizations Guide end-to-end architecture across services, APIs, automation, telemetry pipelines, and data/infrastructure integrations Drive cross-organizational collaboration to influence architecture, automation, and engineering standards Own operational health and readiness across the SRE platform portfolio with service levels and measurable reliability improvements Participate in on-call rotation and drive incident readiness, response, and post-incident improvements Drive scalable tooling and automation for monitoring, deployment, remediation, configuration, and resource management Translate priorities into multi-team roadmaps, aligning resources, dependencies, and investments with business needs Embody Microsoft culture and values
Key requirements: Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR equivalent experience leadership and people management cross-functional collaboration strong communication and stakeholder management Site Reliability Engineering principles platforms and tooling design end-to-end architecture across services, APIs, automation, telemetry pipelines

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Level

Manager

Location

Redmond, WA

Occupation

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

Industry

Computer Systems Design Services

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