Technical Support Advisory

Overview

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.

We are looking for an individual who is a service delivery focused subject matter expert. You will be responsible for frontline engineer or delivery partner support staff technical readiness and process compliance. You will provide in-depth technical & subject matter expertise for one or more products, services, or scenarios all while driving delivery excellence in a collaborative environment to achieve superior customer outcomes. Your primary accountability is to the support staff and managers on the teams you work with. This opportunity enables and promotes career growth as a recognized technical SME.

This role is Microsoft onsite only. 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

Reviews complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue. Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve complex customer issues. Implements end-to-end readiness programs and contributes to the content and readiness strategy. Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes. Contributes to and / or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness. Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution. Participates in case triage meetings and / or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share.

Business Integration

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

Product / Process Improvement

Readiness

Response And Resolution

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience OR 5+ years of operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.

Proven expertise and deep troubleshooting experience in one or several of the areas below :

Servicing, Upgrade, Activation, Bitlocker

RDS, AVD, FSLOGIX

storage, clustering, hyper-v, backup, containers

Azure Local

AD Core, Authentication, PKI

Performance, Reliability, Windows Internal

Ability to read, write and speak fluent English

Other

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.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in a customer support and service environment

Extraordinary collaborator and ability to influence without authority

Experience in using innovative technologies such as AI in every day life.

Experience working in a dynamic team environment.

Experience with problem solving and providing solutions to customers

Microsoft Technology Certifications

Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

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 and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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.

Skills Required

Rds, Vendor Management, Account Management, Information Technology, Troubleshooting, Pki, Technical Support, Bitlocker, Operational Excellence, Sales, Technical Consulting, Azure, Delivery Management