Job Description

With over 18,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 by honing your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and developing your technical proficiency.This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s 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

This is an opportunity to join the fast-paced world of Azure supporting Azure Stack HCI. In today\'\'s growing world of Azure resources and servers HCI solutions are running our customer most important work loads. This is a unique opportunity to join the team bring Azure to OnPrem with Azure Stack HCI.Your Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering an end-to-end solution-based customer support experience with Microsoft
• Unlocking the Hybrid world for our customer on site systems
• Own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues, using collaboration, troubleshooting best practices and transparency within and across teams (e.g. swarming)
• Identify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically)
• Create and maintain incident management requests to product group/engineering group
• Contribute to case deflection initiatives, automation and other digital self-help assets to improve customer/ engineer experience
• Provide ramp activities, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring
• Drive technical collaboration & engagement outside of CSS (Product Engineering teams/Services/Support/Regions)
• Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles; may be workload or specialty specific

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
Windows System Administration, Configuration, including a good basic understanding of:

• Registry
• File Storage
• User Accounts and Access Control
• Event Logs and Auditing
• Performance, Resource Monitor
• Networking (TCP, IP)

Experience in one or more of these areas desirableAutomated installation of Windows
User Profile management
Windows Update management
Kerberos and delegation
Bitlocker administration
Windows Shell configuration and management
Windows Activation, Licensing
Remote Desktop Services configuration and management
Clustering
Printing configuration and management
Resilient Storage technology (clustering, storage spaces)
Server management tools
Hyper-V management and VM deployment
Application installation and management
Windows backup and VSS
PowerShell scripting
Active Directory topology and management
Network Tracing and analysis
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment, management
Remote File Systems (SMB)
Group Policy management
DNS deployment, management
Troubleshooting hangs and crashes in Windows
Network Virtualisation (Hyper-V, SDN)
Troubleshooting performance issues using PerfMon and other toolsLanguage Qualification
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.Qualifications
Required
Windows System Administration/Configuration, including a good basic understanding of:

• Windows Failover Clustering
• General Networking knowledge (TCP/IP)
• Hyper-V management and VM deployment
• Administering Windows via PowerShell
• Resilient Storage technology (clustering, storage spaces direct)
• Azure Portal User Experience

Experience in one or more of these areas strongly preferredNetwork Tracing and analysis
Storage Networking (RDMA, DCB and PFC, TOR switch) experience
Windows Update management
Kerberos and delegation
Automated installation of Windows
Remote Desktop Services configuration and management
Server management tools
Windows Admin Center
Active Directory topology and management
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment/management
Group Policy management
Network Virtualization (Hyper-V, SDN)
Troubleshooting performance issues using PerfMon and other toolsMicrosoft 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 .

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