Technical Support Engineer - Azure

MCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market. Within MCAPS - Core, 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. In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot, and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen your technical proficiency. 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.

Response and Resolution: •    Investigate and solve highly complex customer technical issues and serve as the technical escalation point of contact for other engineers to resolve cases and perform complex troubleshooting tools (e.g. debugging) •    Own and drive critical customer escalations for reactive support delivery •    Maintain and manage blockers or identified critical issues which require senior leadership decisions •    Engage with the account team to drive long running, high priority cases to successful closure •    In partnership with account team, provide Service Health Metrics Reporting, highlighting risks for both parties •    Manage and monitor high risk cases, proactively working to remove blockers on cases flagged to prevent customer dissatisfaction. •    Own and drive any support experience improvement programs. Readiness: •    Take initiative in building communities with peer delivery roles and share knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others •    Deepen technical and professional proficiency to enable resolution of highly complex customer issues through training and readiness. Product/Process Improvement: •    Act as a trusted advisor to the product group/ engineering teams •    Drive Microsoft product, diagnostic and support process improvements •Provide actionable insights based on incident data with flagged risks and current implementations/deployments to help Customers optimize their Microsoft infrastructure •Champion customers to ensure correct resources are engaged and customer has management visibility if needed. Business Integration: •Utilize business and technology insights to help shape strategy when engaging customers, partners, and teams. •Guide account team in navigating the support organization successfully Other: •Embody our Culture and Values.

Required Qualifications: • Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or