Technical Support Engineering IC3

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 customers' 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.

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.

•    Response and Resolution: You own, investigate and solve customer technical issues. You collaborate within and across teams, leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.

•    Readiness: You lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles and, where appropriate, share your knowledge. 

•    You develop specific technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve customer issues, through training and readiness.

•    Product/Process Improvement: You identify potential product defects and escalate appropriately to resolve, contributing to Microsoft product improvements.

Required Qualifications: 
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience 
     o OR 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience 
     o OR equivalent experience.

Language Qualification
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Technical understanding of the following areas with a (preferred) deep knowledge in at least one: Microsoft Azure Platform (IaaS (infrastructure as a service)), Operating System, Virtualization, Networking experience.
Microsoft Azure IAAS Platform
–    Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Platform services (IaaS) including Virtual Machines, VMSS (virtual machine scale sets), Azure Encryption, Image Builder, Compute Gallery, Azure Storage, Azure Portal – Administration and Troubleshooting.
–    Azure Platform development and deployment Lifecycle 
–    Familiarity with tools: PowerShell, Netmon, Fiddler, CLI (command-line interfaces)
–    Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration (Hyper-V, VMWare, Xen configuration and administration)
–    
Operating System – Windows and Linux
–    Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS (operating systems) Internals concepts (Windows & Linux)
–    Familiar with OS troubleshooting, Performance, OS Update, RDP/SSH, Licensing, OS Boot
–    Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration.
Networking
–    Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs (Virtual IP), NAT (network address translation), DNS (Domain Name System) 
–    Familiarity with networking tools (ping, Tracert, Tracemon, wire shark, etc.)
–    Understanding of load balancing, VPN (virtual private networks) technologies preferred
–    Understanding of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model and related concepts

EXPERIENCE

• years of support or equivalent experience including a customer facing or customer support role 
GENERAL

•    Available to work critical cases as needed on a 24x7 basis or through an on-call model.

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.

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.