Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Azure Storage

## About the role - Lead end-to-end qualification and production readiness validation for new Azure Storage hardware SKUs, platforms, SSDs, networking devices, and firmware releases - Drive qualification strategy, test planning, execution, and sign-off recommendations for Azure Storage deployments - Serve as a technical escalation point for qualification failures, performance regressions, reliability issues, and production-readiness concerns impacting Azure Storage deployments - Own complex investigations across software, hardware, firmware, and platform stacks to identify and resolve qualification blockers - Design and develop scalable automation frameworks that improve qualification coverage, efficiency, quality, and engineering productivity - Analyze large-scale telemetry, benchmark data, and fleet health signals to identify performance trends, bottlenecks, risks, and optimization opportunities - Monitor qualification pipelines and proactively identify risks impacting production onboarding, deployment schedules, and service readiness - Perform root cause analysis for hardware, firmware, platform, and software issues discovered during qualification and drive corrective actions to closure - Validate SKU readiness against Azure Storage performance, reliability, scalability, and operational requirements - Partner with Storage, Compute, Networking, Platform, and vendor engineering teams to resolve critical qualification, reliability, and performance issues - Influence qualification standards, test methodologies, performance thresholds, and operational best practices across Azure Storage NPI programs ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration OR equivalent experience - Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical experience in service engineering, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering - 6+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems