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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. In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and develop your technical proficiency.
Job Responsibility:
You review, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices
You participate in communities with peer delivery roles
You develop specific technical and professional proficiency to enable you to understand and resolve customer issues, through training and readiness
You identify potential product defects and provide feedback to more senior engineers, contributing to Microsoft product improvements
The support engineer is responsible for support delivery, providing technical support to Azure customers by resolving escalated, complex technical customer issues on the Azure Platform and delivering Azure Technical Support against CPE and workflow efficiency targets
to identify required tools, cloud access, training, processes or capabilities to assess customer issues in less than 15 minutes
and to keep escalations to PG operations below 10% of the volume
The support engineer is a critical role in the implementation of Azure Platform support capabilities which include working with the PG and Azure Supportability PMs to implement asks
identify technology, and/or process readiness needs, and work with Training PMs and Tech Leads to ensure support team readiness
develop relationships with and engage with technology-specific depth queues for customer incident resolution when required
Requirements:
3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
Strong knowledge and understanding of TCP, IP protocols and OSI model
Experience with Infrastructure , Network Administration
Expertise troubleshooting large Network Environments and familiarity with packet sniffers: Wireshark or Network Monitor, Message Analyzer
Fundamental awareness of Private, Hybrid, Public Cloud, OS : Windows and, or Linux, Virtualization of SDN technologies
Knowledge and understanding of VPN, IPsec, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, s, MPLS, BGP, Layer3, Layer2
Hands-on experience of Proxy and Firewall
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking
Japanese Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking
Leadership - handle technically challenging and politically hot customer situations
Strong communications skills - Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
Effective, polished interaction with customer to gather information
Demonstrable troubleshooting skills
Cross-team collaboration
Logical and Critical thinking
Passion for technology and customer support
Understanding of cloud vs. on premise computing
Technical depth in the current technology and willing to learn new skills
Nice to have:
Knowledge of one of the following domains will be beneficial but not mandatory: Windows Azure Platform, Operating System/Virtualization, and Networking
Windows Azure Platform – Knowledge of Windows Azure Platform services, Azure Platform development and deployment concepts, Familiarity with troubleshooting
Operating System/Virtualization – Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts, Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration, Experience with Hyper-V configuration and administration
Networking – Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS, Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, wire shark, etc.), Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies preferred, Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts