Job Description

The main function of a Developer within our team is to work with the Product Delivery Manager of Operations to design, develop, and implement applications, automations, and enforceable controls (via Azure Policy and other ADO) using general languages and technologies (e.g. - C#, KQL, PowerShell) to ensure that our business meets the highest standards of security, privacy, and reliability compliance.

Job Responsibilities:
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Work across multiple teams to drive quality, security, and accessibility standards are being met at the highest level of scrutiny
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required OR 10+ years of equivalent real-world experience
• 10+ years experience required
• 5+ years' experience with highly complex projects that involve data-driven analysis
• Development experience in C#, PowerShell, KQL
• Hands on experience using Azure DevOps
• Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end
• Hands on experience in following the iterative and agile SDLC

Job Requirements

• Years of Experience Required: 10+overall years of experience in the field.
• Degrees or certifications required: Bachelors and more is preferred or 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Disqualifiers: Candidates who have never worked as an FTE in a senior developer role and candidates with only Linux experience and no Windows experience will not be eligible for the role due to the significant conceptual differences between Linux and Windows. Candidates who lack experience in PowerShell and C# will not be considered for the role.
• Best vs. Average: The sponsor's ideal candidate would be someone with SRE experience. Specifically doing development work - then becoming a manager that felt better being an individual contributor. Reason being, they'd have the understanding of running a team, running a program but would still have the developer skills that most don't have about operations. Bonus if they have on call experience, operational and security mindset and experience, and experience handling sensitive data.
• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on meeting deadlines, work tracking (via Azure DevOps, and project milestones.

1. Minimum 10+ years experience with PowerShell.
2. Minimum 10+years experience with C#.
3. Minimum 10+years experience with Data Handling - experience with SQL or other open-source databases.

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to focus on incident management, reporting, and automation work, particularly with a security focus.
• Key projects: This role will contribute to being a developer with an operational focus to include security incident response and site reliability.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 30% meetings (with customer, other teams, etc.), 70% head down focus time.

Duration

6/30/2026

Desired Start Date

6/16/2025

Hours Per Week

40

Candidate Value Proposition

• What makes this role interesting? - The role combines development with an operational mindset, so it's ideal for those interested in both coding and ensuring the reliability and security of systems.
• Unique Selling Points: The team is responsible for security incident response for all of CELA, making the work highly impactful. The team supports various groups within Microsoft, including philanthropies, accessibility, and gaming, ensuring their products are secure and operational, which contributes to Microsoft's positive impact.

I am currently located in the United States.

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