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 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) 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 CEnS 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.

Responsibilities

This role will require advanced communication skills and the ability to develop strategic on-going customer relationships, gaining trust and respect for the company.
Our Microsoft platform engineer (Windows Client, Windows Server and Virtualization) Engineers must also possess strong technical writing, presentation, and training skills, enjoy working collaboratively as a team and actively contribute to their peer group as well as our customer account teams.

As a Customer Engineer, you will:
• Educate and guide Customers by delivering workshops and custom chalk talks.
• Help customers with their journey to the cloud (Cloud driven strategy)
• Provide the most effective method of service delivery by analyzing trends and common themes across customers.
• Seek information about the underlying needs of customers.
• Deliver proactive services such as risk assessments, Dump review, and disaster recovery plans.
• Help customers with troubleshooting and problem resolution related to core OS.
• Be the technical expert for customer projects and deployments.
• Mentor other Customer Engineers.
• Contribute to business goals and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Seek opportunities to drive Customer Success business results by collaborating with multiple team members.
• Identify opportunities to articulate business value and grow customer relationships in alignment with Customer Success business priorities and stakeholder management principles.
• Modify existing intellectual property (IP) or, where applicable, create new content.
• Build plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate and long-term consequences.
• Demonstrate expertise in a specific solution, or several products, feature functions, or services.
• Provide stakeholder assistance throughout deployment to avoid/resolve technical issues.
• Consistently apply "lessons learned", model personal accountability & teamwork.
• Understand customer/partner requirements and can map the adoption and optimization of Microsoft technology solutions accordingly.
• Gather customer impressions of products and services and integrates this feedback into decision making.
• Drive and Support innovation focusing on industry solutions and customer business outcomes on the Microsoft platform.
• Cultivate relationships, credibility, and loyalty with Customers and Partners intentionally by sharing relevant business expertise.
• Demonstrate yourself as the Self Learner.

Qualifications

Language Qualification
English Language: Fluent in reading, writing and speaking with strong presentation skills.

Technical Expertise:
Windows client , windows server (2016 , 2019) , clusters, Windows as a service and Virtualization.

The Microsoft Platform Engineer (Client, servers and virtualization) Engineer role requires knowledge and experience in a number of the following technologies/areas:
• Experience with Deployment technologies like WDS, MDT, Crash Dump Analysis and High Availability technologies like storage Backup Hyper-V.
• Expertise on Storage SAN NAS DAS understanding of storage stack its architecture.
• Virtualization (Hyper-V) : Monolithic and Microkernel ,Hyper-V ring Architecture.
• VHD and AVHDX Merging Checking integrity with its differencing chain.
• Failover, Planned Failover, Test Failure, Unplanned Failover.
• Hyper-V Migration.
• Windows as a service with its deployment rings concepts, co-management with MEMCM is an added advantage.
• Troubleshooting windows updates issues and understanding of Component based servicing.
Five or more years of experience in systems development, network operations, software support, technical support, product development, or I.T. consulting with a working knowledge of:
• Understanding of Patch Management and experience with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Windows Server Operating System knowledge which includes understanding of NTFS/Share Permissions, File Sharing, Performance Monitoring, Event logging, Task Manager, Windows Firewall, User and Group Management.
• Understanding of WMI and familiarity with WMI queries
• Active Directory concepts such as Kerberos, LDAP, Sites and Security Groups.
• Understanding of TCP/IP and other networking services: DNS, WINS, DHCP, Routing.
• Exceptional Problem-Solving and Communication Skills - Spoken and written English (including technical writing).
Preferred Qualifications:
• Four or more years of industry experience with Microsoft Server products.
• Familiar with status messages and various server and client-side logs used for troubleshooting.
• Hands on with popular sysinternal utilities to find RCA for performance related bottlenecks.
• Hands-on to EUC space (AVD) will be an added advantage.
• Cloud Fundamentals.
• Windows networking.

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. 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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