Service Engineer II

Overview

Are you passionate about cloud computing, obsessed with customer experience, and driven to resolve complex issues under pressure? Do you thrive in high-stakes, live environments and want to play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability of Microsoft’s cloud platform? If so, the Azure Customer Experience (CXP) team has the opportunity for you.

Microsoft Azure is one of the most exciting and strategic products at Microsoft—powering mission-critical workloads for enterprises, governments, and startups around the world. Azure delivers on-demand, hyper-scale infrastructure and platforms via Microsoft's global data centers, enabling customers to build, host, and scale their applications with confidence.

The Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team within Azure CXP is a top-level pillar of Azure Engineering responsible for world-class live-site management, customer reliability engagements, modern customer-first experiences for scale, and drives deep customer insights and empathy into the broader Azure Engineering organization. Our “no dead-end’s” philosophy ensures that every customer, regardless of size or scale, can realize their full potential through the Microsoft Cloud

We are seeking decisive and experienced Service Engineers for Live Site Issues, Problem Management and driving Customer reliability space. This role is accountable for enhancing the customer experience across Azure, including First Party Services. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong breadth in managing complex, highly available services, paired with deep technical expertise in Azure Core Services and their inter dependencies. You will work closely with Customers, First Parties, Customer Support, Livesite, and Engineering teams to deliver critical, customer-facing features. Success in this role requires the ability to influence and collaborate across many Azure servicing teams to ensure customer needs are met.

In addition, this role includes on-call responsibilities for managing and resolving complex multi-service outages. It requires the ability to remain effective under pressure, apply broad technical and analytical skills, and coordinate seamlessly with internal service teams and stakeholders. Strong communication skills—both written and verbal—are essential. You will also lead the evolution of Azure's Incident Management practice through Post-Incident Reviews, process development, and system automation. By leveraging telemetry and metrics, you will identify and drive platform-wide improvements with global impact. You’ll be the single point of command and control during high-severity incidents, orchestrating cross-functional engineering, operations, and communications to minimize impact, restore services quickly, and protect the trust of our global customer base.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make immediate impact, improve systems at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

• 6+ Yrs of experience in roles cloud operations, incident response, SRE or large-scale system engineering preferably in platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.Must have Service Engineering experience in a 24 x 7 x 365 enterprise environmentsExceptional command-and-control communication skills—able to drive clarity and direction with customers - internal Microsoft stake holders and third-party vendors during ambiguity and chaos.Deep understanding of cloud architecture patterns, microservices, and containerization.Demonstrated ability to make decisions quickly, under pressure, and with limited data—without compromising long-term reliability.Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic).Contribute to Implement observability frameworks to proactively detect performance bottlenecks.Strong knowledge of CI / CD pipelines, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep).Familiarity with AI / ML frameworks and cloud AI services.Experience implementing AI-driven monitoring, alerting, and remediation systemsFluency in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, CLI etc.) Understanding ITIL or other incident management frameworks is a must.Understand High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Performance TuningDemonstrates strategic thinking, quantitative and analytical skills, team leadership, and collaboration Excellent problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skillsDesired Strong knowledge of Windows Platform or Linux, developer tools and ability to diagnose and debug user codeEffectively manage and prioritize multiple tasks in accordance with high level objectives / projects. Excellent communication skill (written + verbal) in English , especially in high-pressure scenarios.Ability to communicate with a variety of audiences; including high-profile customers, executive management, and engineering teams.Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP core services and their interdependence.Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications :

6+ Years of demonstrated experience as an Incident Commander or Crisis Manager for critical, high-severity incidents in high-availability, distributed environments.Experience with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) principles and practices.Exposure to chaos engineering, fault injection, or high availability architecture.AI / ML Experience : (Beginner to Intermediate)Familiarity with how AI / ML models are integrated into cloud infrastructure and their potential failure modes.Experience using AI-powered tools for incident analysis, log correlation, or predictive alerting.An understanding of the challenges and risks associated with AI / ML systems in a production environment. Certifications : Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect).Certifications in ITIL, SRE, or other relevant frameworks.

Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed. #azcre

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role, you must have a great track record of customer compassion, an engineering mindset, an innate aptitude for agility, and technical excellence in software engineering. Collaborate closely with Engineering / PM to ensure the availability, performance of Live Site and the satisfaction of our customers

Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect