Job Description

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.
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 help customers and partners resolve their issues quickly, prevent future problems from occurring, and demonstrate new ways to achieve more from their Microsoft investment.
Applications & infrastructure - the largest and fastest growing group in CSS - provides Microsoft’s commercial customers with timely technical expertise to address their business-critical challenges and partners with them to advance global, cross-cloud solutions that enable their people and empower the world.

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, honing your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepening your technical proficiency.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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 review, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices

Readiness

• 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.

Product/Process Improvement

• You identify potential product defects and provide feedback to more senior engineers, contributing to Microsoft product improvements

Qualifications

Required
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

• Experience in Network Security Engineering or consulting, and, or Systems Administration with focus on security. Experience with endpoint security, server security, or threat analytics.
• Customer facing support experience
• Experience on Windows Server, Windows Client, Active Directory and, or Azure Active Directory Administration
• Enterprise cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security, networking, and migration of multi-cloud or hybrid deployments
• Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 1000+ users

Experience in one or more of these areas desirable

• Experience with Linux or Mac administration
• Scripting and automation (PowerShell or Python, Java, or a similar language, can be a beginner to intermediate level).

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

If you already have some experience on these, it would be an added advantage:

• System Centre Endpoint Protection
• Azure Antimalware
• Windows Defender
• Microsoft Defender for EndPoint (Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Azure Security Center)
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Azure Information Protection
• Active Directory Rights Management Service
• Azure Key vault
• Office 365 Security & Compliance and Authentication
• Microsoft Defender for Clouds Apps (Cloud Application Security (MCAS))
• Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) / Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Advanced Threat Analytics
• Microsoft Defender for IoT

Required Experience

• 2+ years of experience in Network Security Engineering or consulting, and/or Systems Administration.
• 2+ years Customer facing support experience.
• 1+ year Experience on Windows Server, Windows Client, Active Directory and/or Azure Active Directory administration.
• 1+ year enterprise cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security, networking, and migration of multi-cloud or hybrid deployments
• Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 1000+ users

Soft Skills

• Demonstrated experience learning new technologies
• Strong collaborative skills and extensive cross-group coordination skills
• Proven customer service skills supporting external and/or internal customers in an enterprise

environment

• Great phone presence and documentation abilities. Excellent executive communication and crisis

management skills

• Excellent documentation skills and ability to translate complex technical processes into simple to

follow written guides

• Previous experience working in a large, complex, highly matrixed global organization preferred
• Ability to work in a high pace environment

Education

• Preferred Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field, or relevant work experience
• Preferred IT Industry certifications (Microsoft Certifications, Cisco, CISSP, CEH, Amazon AWS, etc.)

As a security support engineer, you will be an elite member of a customer facing security support team working on resolving complex issues with Azure Cloud and On-Prem Microsoft security products. You have extensive experience providing mission critical customer support to external enterprise customers with a focus on helping, advising, and empowering customers to achieve more. You have a passion for learning new technologies, collaborating with other experts to find solutions, having complete customer obsession, continuously optimizing and improving the customer support experience, and having fun. You enjoy working on challenging issues that require in depth investigation, excellent communication, and complete ownership to drive issues to resolution. You obsess over small details to make sure that each customer interaction not only drives issues to resolution, but also ensures that customers are effectively using Microsoft technologies to further the success of their business.
In all interactions with our customers, you communicate effectively, have complete accountability and ownership over providing amazing results, show resourcefulness in providing timely and effective solutions, and approach every situation with empathy, care, and a focus on providing an amazing experience. When you don’t know the answer, you “swarm” with other engineers at Microsoft to come up with a solution quickly, and you aren’t afraid to ask questions and learn new things daily. You don’t let anything block you in the pursuit of a world class customer service experience for our customers.
This position requires extensive cross-group coordination and excellent oral and written communication skills. Attention to detail; and a highly organized, process-focused aptitude are required to manage the variety of responsibilities and deliverables. You must be able to work well under pressure and deadlines, while also exhibiting flexibility and adaptability across a broad organizational matrix.
Beyond extensive technical focus, this role requires the ability to communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely and build broad relationships with influencers to impact key business results. You are passionate about improving the customer support experience and the product by collaborating with software developers to recommend feature improvements.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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