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As a customer focused Senior Advanced Cloud Engineer, you are the primary support and engineering contact accountable for the customer’s Azure support experience driving resolution of complex critical problems and supporting key customer projects on Azure. You will also act as the voice of the customer within Azure to escalate problems and to drive prioritization of platform/support improvement needs for customers.
Job Responsibility:
Track customer incidents, engage with strategic customers and partners to understand issues, contribute to troubleshooting through diagnostics, communicate progress and next steps to customers with a focus on reducing time taken to mitigate critical incidents
Use engineering and support tools, customer telemetry and/or direct customer input to detect and flag trends/patterns of issues in the products or products misuse across customers
Develop and share insights and best practices with customers
Recommend and help develop training/readiness modules (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks)
Acts as a mentor, shares knowledge, and contributes to the content and readiness strategy for the team
Serve as a connecting point between the product team and customers throughout the engagement lifecycle, engage with customers to understand their business and availability needs, develop and offer proactive guidance on designing configurations and deploying solutions on Azure
Handle complex escalations on customer issues from the customer or support or field teams, conduct impact analysis, help customers with answers to their technical questions, and serve as an escalation resource in areas of subject matter expertise
Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of issues and translates findings into opportunities for improvement and track and drive them as repair items
Acts as a voice of customers and leverages customers' feedback to provide input on business plans developed by the relevant product and business groups
Identifies customer usage patterns and driving resolutions on reoccurring customer issues with engineering and product and business groups
Leads their team in engaging with feature and product groups on redesign/customer requested changes for Microsoft products
Close the loop of feedback with the customers on product features
Partners with other teams (e.g., program managers, software engineers, product, customer service support [CSS] teams) prioritize, unblock, and resolve critical customer issues
Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions to strategic customers and develop mechanisms that improve customer health and reduce the turnover time
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
4 years of demonstrated IT experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations
Japanese language skill – this person will be part of our virtual team focused on supporting Japanese customers and needs to be conversant in the language
Ability to speak, understand, read and write Japanese language
2+ years of experience with being on - call and driving mitigation for mission critical incidents
Demonstrated hands on experience in one or more of the following: Core IaaS: Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability, Azure Kubernetes Service
Data Platform and Bigdata: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, HDInsight/Hadoop, Machine Learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Factory / Data Bricks, Cosmos DB