Site Reliability Engineer II
Job Summary
Join the Azure Specialized AI Infrastructure team in India to drive advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and support high-performance infrastructure for generative AI workloads. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will automate and maintain large-scale distributed systems powering latest AI applications and machine learning models. Your primary focus will be on the reliability scalability and performance of AI infrastructure ensuring seamless operations for mission-critical AI services. The role emphasizes a start-up mindset collaboration and customer advocacy.
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Responsibilities
- Reliability: Ensure the reliability scalability and security of AI infrastructure supporting HPC & AI workloads.
- Incident Management: Lead incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement to minimize downtime and optimize service availability.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve bottlenecks in compute storage networking and specialized hardware (GPUs InfiniBand) to enhance AI system performance.
- Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain automation tools for deployment monitoring predictive analysis and management of AI infrastructure including containerized environments (Kubernetes Docker).
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance in cloud and AI infrastructure technologies collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and best practices.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 1 year(s) technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
- OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 6 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
- OR equivalent experience.
- 8 years of professional software engineering experience with 5 years in service operations monitoring and reliability improvement for infrastructure.
- 1 years experience with incident management and reliability engineering in cloud or AI environments.
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.
- Masters Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 3 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
- OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 5 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2 years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- 1 years experience in distributed systems and/or cloud platforms (Azure Kubernetes Docker containers ecosystem).
- 1 years experience with GPUs InfiniBand or similar high-performance technologies.
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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