Software Engineer II (DevOps)
Microsoft · Posted Oct 8
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics with products that include databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence, with a mission to build the data platform for the age of AI. Within Microsoft Fabric, the Data Integration team enables organizations to connect, move, and shape data across their entire data estate through a unified integration experience. This DevOps role focuses on automating ADF and Microsoft Fabric region/cloud buildouts, building scalable deployment pipelines, improving operational reliability, and driving zero-touch automation.
What you will do
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Git-based workflows.
- Automate build, validation, deployment, and post-deployment verification.
- Support safe promotion of changes across development, test, and production environments.
- Improve deployment reliability through automated validation and quality gates.
- Automate infrastructure and service onboarding for new Azure regions and sovereign clouds.
- Identify manual deployment steps and convert them into repeatable, zero-touch automation.
- Develop reusable scripts/tools for pre-buildout, buildout, validation, and post-buildout activities.
- Support ADF, ADMS, Fabric DI, and Airflow deployment workflows.
- Develop automation using PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, REST APIs, ARM/Bicep or equivalent infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Manage configuration across environments and regions.
- Build automated health checks and deployment validation mechanisms.
- Improve scalability and repeatability of infrastructure provisioning.
- Troubleshoot deployment, configuration, networking, authentication, certificate, and infrastructure issues.
- Perform root-cause analysis and develop automation to prevent repeat failures.
- Improve monitoring, diagnostics, alerting, and operational readiness.
- Participate in production/live-site investigations and drive issues to closure.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#, Java, React, or Python ○ OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in data integration or migrations or ELT or ETL tooling is mandatory
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps / CI-CD pipelines
- PowerShell and/or Python scripting
- Git and branch/PR workflows
- Azure infrastructure and deployment concepts
- Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation
- REST APIs and automation tooling
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Monitoring, logging, and incident investigation experience
- Kubernetes/AKS and container technologies
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Airflow, ARM/Bicep, networking, identity, and multi-region cloud deployments is preferred.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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