Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You will be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connections, executive engagement, and memorable events. 

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a global team driving enormous scale and assuring operational excellence while gaining deep understanding of availability, performance, and security
• Develop platforms and frameworks that can be used to host various types of services or automate processes for large scale initiatives
• Evaluate and contribute to product & service design, help shape Site Reliability Engineering strategies, review specifications, design and improve upon core processes
• Work closely with peer engineering teams on defining and implementing improvements to service monitoring and reporting to enhance reliability and capability
• Solve problems in mission critical services and create solutions to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions
• Participate and enhance our data-driven culture by providing statistical trending and analysis using real service data to increase service health and quality
• Providing operational support for day-to-day activities involving deployment of services, configuration of service interaction, etc.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's in engineering, computer science or related field graduating in 2024
• Must have a minimum of one semester, quarter, or term of school to complete after finishing the internship
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Experience in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, etc. or object-oriented languages such as C#, C++ or Java are most relevant, but others are acceptable.
• Testing and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Some experience outside of the classroom environment (like open-source contribution, academic projects) in testing, deploying, and supporting large scale services on Azure, AWS (Amazon Web Services), or similar environments.