This list contains only the countries for which job offers have been published in the selected language (e.g., in the French version, only job offers written in French are displayed, and in the English version, only those in English).
Interested in being on the cutting edge of Cloud Services? Then come join Microsoft as an Embedded Escalation Engineer (EEE) working with Azure Analytics. As EEE, you will be working with Azure Databricks Engineering team within support to be “the” differentiator in the marketplace and need the best and brightest to take our Azure Analytics Service to the next level. The position is primarily “behind the scenes” providing engineering support to the broader Microsoft SQL Cloud support delivery teams for incidents that require product group engagement. At the same time, individuals should be capable and prepared to occasionally engage directly with customers to help facilitate incident resolution as appropriate.
Job Responsibility:
Lead engineering investigations to bring quicker issue resolution to support incidents impacting our customers and improve customer experience
Build solutions, help create tools, help automate issue detection and diagnosis, to enable customers or support to self-resolve the issues
Identify emerging trends or re-occurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them from the workflow
Contribute to product improvements by filing impactful bugs, design change requests and helping developers to fix and ship them to production, preventing customers from being impacted
As a trusted advisor to the Microsoft Azure engineering team and the Serviceability Technology Lead, you will suggest changes to future versions to better equip our support teams as well as our partners and customers and help influence in-market solutions today
As a customer ambassador, you will also partner with engineering leadership for strategic technical, architectural and design discussions, and drive strategic thought leadership for Azure Diagnostics/UDE tools creation and usage worldwide bringing the customer voice to the center of impactful decisions
Able to work well in challenging situations while exhibiting flexibility and ability tolerate and manage through ambiguity and uncertainty
Beyond extensive technical and product focus, this role requires the ability to frame and communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely, show exceptional attention to detail, and demonstrate the ability to build broad relationships with the right influencers, leveraging those relationships to impact key business results
Work directly with our Azure Databricks Product Group to provide world-class engineering support at a product component level
Perform complex product debugging and remediation when needed
working alongside the development teams to drive support incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers
Embedded Escalation Engineers are not expected to write product code
however, should be able to apply their code skills and understanding towards efficiently resolving support issues as appropriate
Identify emerging trends or recurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them from the workflow
Provide periodic on-call rotation (low frequency) service as primary response to service escalations
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
OR 7+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
OR equivalent experience
3+ years of experience in a customer-facing or support role in any of the following: technical escalation support, product support, developer support, IT DevOps, IT Admin/support, Systems Development, or Consulting or IT/Network Operations
2+ years of experience in one or more of the following: Microsoft Azure Platform
Experience in any JAVA, JavaScript, Python, R, Scala, REST concepts, PowerShell
Familiarity with development: tools, language, process, methods, troubleshooting
Experience with Data Integration solutions and services
Experience with Open-Source technology preferred
Service engineering and/or DevOps experience at internet scale involving user data and/or software development for an enterprise level product
Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills, an ability to use various data collection tools and methodologies to analyze problems and develop solutions
BS in computer science or engineering or equivalent industry experience is preferred
Applicants must possess Australian Citizenship
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Experience with Open-Source technology preferred
BS in computer science or engineering or equivalent industry experience is preferred