Technical Support Engineering

Overview

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft's AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.

Within the CSS Organization, the Mission Critical Services for Azure Events (MCSAE) team on a comprehensive Unified service designed to proactively help Azure customers identify and remediate any risk to executing a successful event, such as issues related to reliability, scalability, and resiliency. In addition, MCSAE provides a fast reactive support experience if the customer does experience any problems.
In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot, and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen your technical proficiency.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Response and Resolution: You own, investigate, and solve complex customer technical issues and act as an advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams, leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
Readiness: You lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others.
You deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness.
Product/Process Improvement: You engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools, driving Microsoft product improvements.

Customer Resolution: Acts as the final point of escalation and resolution for advanced technical support for highly complex products, highly escalated issues pertaining to confidential security, highly technical or network/system issues.
Provides advanced technical support to diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, developers, architects, and executive management.
Own customer support experience, using collaboration, troubleshooting best practices, and transparency within and across teams (e.g. swarming)
Help drive customer resiliency and confidence in the Azure platform
Provide Best Practice recommendation across the entirety of Azure resources based on Customer Solutions.
Articulate, written and spoken, recommendation to leadership and technical level audiences.
Navigate complex, strategic, high-profile customer event requirements and needs.

Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  o OR 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  o OR equivalent experience.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years' experience in a customer facing or customer support role with strong troubleshooting and problem-solving of complex technical issues involving multiple technologies in Azure platform in a team environment.
  Microsoft Technology Certifications
• Azure Cloud Technologies
• On-Prem Technologies
• Industry experience with Microsoft Server products, network connectivity, UNIX or other operating systems.
• Experience with any of the following
• Azure Data Bricks
• Azure Database Technologies such as SQLDB, PostgresSQL, MySQL
• Container technology and Kubernetes
• Web App on Linux, Windows IIS, Azure Web Apps or Docker, or related software development platforms.
  HTML and HTTPFamiliarity with LDAP, Security and OS Internals concepts
• Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration (Hyper-V, Ware,XenConfiguration)Understanding of container specific networking such as CNI
• Familiarity with DHCP, VIPs, NAT, DNS
• Familiarity with networking troubleshooting (ping, tracert, tracemon, tcpdump, netsh, etc.)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Platform Services

Technical Support Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $112,000 - $185,300 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.