Service Engineer

Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? Join Engineering Operations (EngOps) – the organization driving operational excellence across the Microsoft Cloud to strengthen quality, reliability, security, and customer trust. As part of EngOps, you’ll design solutions that prevent issues before they happen, embed AI-powered automation, and turn signals into actions that deliver measurable customer impact. Our culture of empowerment, inclusion, and growth mindset defines how we work.  The Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team within Azure EngOps 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.  #engops, #CRE   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   Lead and manage high-severity incidents across Azure services, serving as the single point of accountability to ensure rapid detection, triage, resolution, and customer communication. Act as the central authority during live site incidents, driving real-time decision-making and coordination across Engineering, Support, PM, Communications, and Field teams. Contribute to the design of V. Next architecture for Cloud infrastructure services, based on Customer/ First party engagements.  Engage in major production triage efforts and work with different teams in the identification of root cause of highly impactful or complex issues as required and identify Product gaps and work with Product teams to bridge the gaps.  Partner closely with Software developers, Product Managers, architects, and Infrastructure teams to drive delivery of sustainable and