Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
With over 12,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.
Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth. The CE&S organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.
Escalation Engineers (EE) investigate and solve critical, complex, and highly technical issues using mostly code-level techniques - like trace and source code analysis, debugging tools, reverse engineering techniques and other sophisticated diagnostic tools. EEs are responsible for driving Product Engineering engagement. They handle highly complex politically charged and financially important cases through collaboration and conflict resolution skills and act as key collaboration point for support teams.
In this role you will become world best in your area of expertise. Besides technical talent, we are looking for people who thrive under challenging circumstances and engage in difficult situations while they learn.

Responsibilities

Your Responsibilities

• Handle highly complex, political, financial, executive level cases - as business demands
• Key collaboration point for advanced troubleshooting to unblock issues - including the use of code-level techniques
  
• Manage engagement with Product Engineering for Support-raised escalations
  
• Work alongside Serviceability and engineering teams as trusted advisor to improve incident resolution or service deficiency
  
• Drive process, tool, service delivery and solution improvements that enable effective troubleshooting and remediation (incl. Diagnostics)
• Provide ramp activities for junior engineers, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring
• Drive technical collaboration and 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

To be successful in this role, the following skills and experience is desired:

• 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing or support role in any of the following: technical escalation support, product support, developer support, IT DevOps, IT Admin/support, Systems Development, or Consulting or IT/Network Operations.

• Strong experience and knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and Database technology.

(4+ years of experience working with SQL Server on-premises or SQL Cloud)

• Preferred 2+ years of experience on Open source databases or Azure Open Source Databases (Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for Maria DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL)
• Experience and Knowledge of Cloud Computing
• 2+ years of Azure/Other Cloud Platform experience
• Good understanding of Microsoft Azure Platform Compute, architecture, and related components.
• Understanding of Commerce Platform, Subscription management and Billing Systems in Cloud
• Exposure or knowledge of Linux OS is a plus

Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts

• OS/Networking

o Understanding of Windows Server or Linux OS (System Admin and OS Internals)
o Understanding of Virtualization concepts
o Familiarity with Networking concepts and Network Troubleshooting Tools

• Development/Coding

o Escalation Engineers are not expected to write product code; however, should be able to apply their code skills and understanding towards efficiently resolving support issues as appropriate
o Experience with C# and .NET, PowerShell, CLI, Microsoft Azure, other languages.
o Service engineering and/or DevOps experience at internet scale involving user data and/or software development for an enterprise level service
o Familiarity with development tools, methods, and troubleshooting

• Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills, an ability to use various data collection tools and methodologies to analyze problems and develop solutions

Soft Skills:

• Passion for technology and overall product quality. An interest and desire to understand Microsoft Product Groups and the product development life cycle.
• Strong communications skills - excellent spoken and written English communication skills and the ability to present complex technical issues clearly and concisely to a general audience
• Self-motivated and independent thinker, who routinely translates circumstances and understanding into actions that move the business forward in a measurable manner.
• Excellent analytical, problem resolution and decision-making skills
• Disciplined program management and cross-group skills, including the ability to get what you need from others while working around their own legitimate priorities.
• Courage and conviction to drive decisions and defend positions across organization.

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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