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.

Support Engineers (SE) serve as frontline technical resources for Microsoft customers and partners via phone, email or web. They deliver unique value by collaboratively and reactively solving customer problems, providing proactive support advice, contributing to product quality and enhancements and creating self-help assets to broadly reach more customers. You will be part of a team responsible for providing an outstanding technical support experience to our business customers. From problem identification to full resolution, you will own and manage the customer experience over the phone and Web. When needed, you will collaborate with others to engage subject matter experts, Engineering (Product Groups) or Management. Your day to day job will be about providing both technical expertise (either on your own or by involving your colleagues) and about being an excellent communicator and a service oriented professional. You will be given the opportunity to become a subject matter expert in one or more areas and receive guidance and mentorship from your colleagues.

Responsibilities

Your Responsibilities
• 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. swarming)
• Identify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically)
• Create and maintain incident management requests to product group or engineering group
• Contribute to case deflection initiatives, automation and other digital self-help assets to improve customer and engineer experience
• Provide ramp activities, 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

Language Qualification
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Qualifications:
1. Adaptability, flexibility and the ability to do the right thing under pressure and tight deadlines.
2. Great interpersonal and communication skills-both oral and written-and success in partnering with groups inside and outside of Microsoft.
3. A self-motivated and independent thinker that shows initiative and routinely translates circumstances and understanding into actions that move the business forward in a measurable manner.
4. Ability to distil, prioritize and act on feedback from a variety of sources.
5. Conviction and courage to drive decisions and defend positions as appropriate.
6. Strong customer service skills, accurate and logical problem solving, and communication skills, plus the ability to excel in a team environment is essential
7. Strong troubleshooting skills of complex technical issues involving multiple technologies
8. Collaborative and inclusive mindset
9. Ability to handle high pressure situations well, while maintaining calm and composure in stressful situations is a must.
10. Strong ability to lead, perform, and deliver results in high pressure situations with multiple parties involved
11. Ability to handle multiple customer issues and effectively balance your priority need.
12. Bachelor’s degree or higher in any STEM related field that has a significant computing element

The role would require you to specialize in just one or two of these skill groups.

Group 1 – Azure Data Warehouse
1. Experience supporting Azure or other cloud-based solutions, and knowledge of orchestration applications such as SSIS, or Azure Data Factory
2. Competency with Windows, networking, Active Directory, Clustering or virtualization
3. Experience managing applications and services through PowerShell, Bash or similar scripting languages
4. Knowledge of BI integration tools such as Informatica, Power BI, Tableau.

Group 2 –SQL Cloud
1. Experience with Microsoft SQL Server either on-premises or Azure DB, or experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or MariaDB
2. Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 / 2014 /SQL 2016 at dev level (SQL language, Stored Procedures, etc.)
3. Experience with Azure Data Migration Services and/or SQL Server Data Migration Assistant
4. Linux/Unix Administration is a plus
5. Competency with Windows, networking, Active Directory, Clustering or virtualization
6. Experience managing applications and services through PowerShell, Bash or similar scripting languages.

Group 3 – PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB
1. MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL, knowledge on both is preferred.
2. Previous experience requirement with administration, operation, or development with OSS Databases
3. Owning, tracking, and resolving database related incidents and requests
4. Building and deploying DDL and DML to implement application features and function.
5. Managing operational needs of the database (DB) subsystems (e.g. DB backups, maintenance, monitoring), tuning and performance optimization
6. Experience with backup and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL/MySQL
7. Building data and DB subsystems to scale to maximum performance.
8. Install and monitor PostgreSQL database using the standard monitoring tools Analyze daily logs using and query tuning.
9. Maintain custom vacuum strategies at table and database level.
10. General database administration with generic performance troubleshooting knowledge
11. Monitor code migration and database change management through various stages of the development life cycle.
12. Understanding of the PostgreSQL/MySQL Architecture and internals
13. Skilled with PostgreSQL/MySQL database clusters, replication, and high availability, tuning and scalability.
14. Knowledgeable of OSS database utilities and tools
15. Understanding of PostgreSQL extensions
16. Understanding of replication and high availability tools and methods. Including knowledge on High Availability and Connection Pooling & Load Balancing PostgreSQL workloads
17. Understanding on tuning Memory parameters in PostgreSQL
18. Gain and share expertise in database technologies other than PostgreSQL including SQL Server and MySQL.
19. Experience in collaboration within different organizational teams, including escalation teams and R&D Teams, and 3rd party support partners (Open Source).
20. Knowledge of service-oriented architecture.
21. Knowledge and experience with the Open Source ecosystem.

Group 4 – SQL VM
1. Hands on experience with either SQL Server or Azure SQL VM
2. Heterogeneous Database Management Systems like Oracle, MySQL, DB2 etc.
3. Understanding of cloud technology
4. An understanding of .Net Framework
5. Hands on experience with Windows Administration and Identity Management
6. Hands on experience with Storage Management

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.

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