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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. 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.
Job Responsibility:
Response and Resolution: You own, investigate, and solve complex customer technical issues and act as an advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams, leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices
Readiness: You lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others
You deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness
Product/Process Improvement: You engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools, driving Microsoft product improvements
Requirements:
5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
Leadership - handle technically challenging and politically hot customer situations
Strong communications skills - excellent spoken and written English communication skills
Effective, polished interaction with customer to gather information
Demonstrable troubleshooting skills
Cross-team collaboration
Logical and critical thinking
Passion for technology and customer support
Understanding of cloud vs. on premise computing
Strong knowledge and understanding of Networking basics: TCP/UDP concepts, common tools/commands (ping, tracert, nslookup, telnet) required for troubleshooting, IP addressing, subnetting, 3-way handshake, routing protocols, OSI model, routing, switching
Experience with Infrastructure, Network Administration
Expertise troubleshooting large Network Environments and familiarity with packet sniffers: Wireshark or Network Monitor, Message Analyzer
Fundamental awareness of Private, Hybrid, Public Cloud, OS : Windows and, or Linux, Virtualization of SDN technologies
Knowledge and understanding of VPN, IPsec, DHCP, DNS, HTTP/s, MPLS/BGP/Layer3/Layer2/Wireshark analysis
Hands-on experience of Proxy and Firewall
Australian citizenship is a mandatory requirement for all applicants
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Nice to have:
Knowledge of one of the following domains will be beneficial but not mandatory: Windows Azure Platform
Knowledge of Windows Azure Platform services
Azure Platform development and deployment concepts
Familiarity with troubleshooting
Operating System/Virtualization
Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts
Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration
Experience with Hyper-V configuration and administration
Networking
Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS
Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, wire shark, etc.)
Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies preferred
Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts