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Responsibilities

Response and Resolution:

  • Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.
  • Own, investigate, and solve complex customer technical issues and act as an advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
  • Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Creates technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edits or creates news/ knowledge-base articles) that is internal or customer facing for better customer understand. Provides best practices and education to ensure customer understands the problem in order to proactively resolve potential issues in the future.
  • Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.
  • Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues.

Readiness
  • Lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others.
  • Deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness.
  • Implements end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) and contributes to the content and readiness strategy. Mentors Technical Support Engineers or members from other teams outside of Customer Service and Support (CSS). Develops expert level competence on support topics.

Product/Process Improvement
  • Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement. Leverages overall product knowledge to determine if and when features require enhancements.
  • Engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools driving Microsoft product improvements.
  • Responsible for the customer support experience with Microsoft
  • Own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues, using collaboration, troubleshooting best practices and transparency within and across teams (e.g., first quality response, swarming, case documentation, customer expectation mgmt., etc.)
  • Identify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically) and assure correct stakeholder(s) are engaged in a timely manner using established processes
  • Leverage the latest appropriate tools and available insights to educate and empower customers to self-help and deflect future cases
  • Provide ramp activities, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring
  • Drive technical collaboration & engagement across cross functional teams

Business Integration
  • Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy.

Other
  • Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • 5 years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3 years technical support, technical consulting experience
    • or information technology experience.
  • Hands on experience in three or more of the following: Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Azure ExpressRoute (MPLS), Azure Network Virtual Appliance (NVA),Azure Virtual WAN,Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure DNS, Azure Private Link, AzurePrivate Endpoint, or Azure Peering Service.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
  • Microsoft Technology Certifications.
  • Candidate to work 2nd shift 2pm to 10pm PST.

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