Technical Support Engineering

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With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

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.

Interested in Azure Cloud Security and Compliance support? Want to be part of one of the Cybersecurity groups? Then come join the CSS Security & Compliance team at Microsoft as a security support engineer responsible for learning and supporting the cutting-edge security products.

Interested in Azure Cloud Security and Compliance support? Want to be part of one of the Cybersecurity groups? Then come join the CSS Security & Compliance team at Microsoft as a security support engineer responsible for learning and supporting the cutting-edge security products.

Experience in one or more of the following products would be needed:
Microsoft Purview (Security & Compliance)
Azure Information Protection
Exchange online
If you already have some experience in SharePoint online and teams, it would be an added advantage.

Your Profile and The Position
As a Security and Compliance support engineer, you will be an elite member of a customer facing support team working on resolving complex issues with Azure Cloud and On-Prem Microsoft security & compliance products. You have extensive experience providing mission critical customer support to external enterprise customers with a focus on helping, advising, and empowering customers to achieve more. You have a passion for learning new technologies, collaborating with other experts to find solutions, having complete customer obsession, continuously optimizing and improving the customer support experience, and having fun. You enjoy working on challenging issues that require in depth investigation, excellent communication, and complete ownership to drive issues to resolution. You obsess over small details to make sure that each customer interaction not only drives issues to resolution, but also ensures that customers are effectively using Microsoft technologies to further the success of their business.

In all interactions with our customers, you communicate effectively, have complete accountability and ownership over providing amazing results, show resourcefulness in providing timely and effective solutions, and approach every situation with empathy, care, and a focus on providing an amazing experience. When you don’t know the answer, you “swarm” with other engineers at Microsoft to come up with a solution quickly, and you aren’t afraid to ask questions and learn new things daily. You don’t let anything block you in the pursuit of a world class customer service experience for our customers.
This position requires extensive cross-group coordination and excellent oral and written communication skills. Attention to detail; and a highly organized, process-focused aptitude are required to manage the variety of responsibilities and deliverables. You must be able to work well under pressure and deadlines, while also exhibiting flexibility and adaptability across a broad organizational matrix.

Beyond extensive technical focus, this role requires the ability to communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely and build broad relationships with influencers to impact key business results. You are passionate about improving the customer support experience and the product by collaborating with software developers to recommend feature improvements.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
o OR 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.
o OR equivalent experience

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

Required Experience
5+ years of experience in Exchange Online supporting email hygiene, labels, policies and/or Audit logs, Azure Information Protection
5+ years Customer facing support experience.
5+ year Experience on Azure Active Directory administration, Microsoft Purview Compliance and/or Azure Information Protection
3+ year enterprise cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security.
Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 1000+ users
Soft Skills
· Demonstrated experience learning new technologies
· Strong collaborative skills and extensive cross-group coordination skills
· Proven customer service skills supporting external and/or internal customers in an enterprise
environment
· Great phone presence and documentation abilities. Excellent executive communication and crisis
management skills
· Excellent documentation skills and ability to translate complex technical processes into simple to
follow written guides
· Previous experience working in a large, complex, highly matrixed global organization preferred
· Ability to work in a high pace environment
Education
· Preferred Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field, or relevant work experience
· Preferred IT Industry certifications (Microsoft Certifications, Cisco, CISSP, CEH, Amazon AWS, etc.)

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.

• Response and Resolution: You own, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
• Readiness: You lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles and, where appropriate, share your knowledge.
• You develop specific technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve customer issues, through training and readiness.
• Product/Process Improvement: You identify potential product defects and escalate appropriately to resolve, contributing to Microsoft product improvements.

Key Responsibilities
Scope and resolve complex issues with onboarding, deployment and configuration of products
Advise and educate customers on the features and capabilities of our products
Interpret and analyze log data to troubleshoot issues
Communicate solutions and recommendations to the customer and ensure that customers have the information and tools to address similar issues in the future
Collaborate and coordinate with other teams and experts throughout Microsoft to tailor the best solution for customer issues
Develop, document, and implement runbooks for training, process standardization, and guidance on how to troubleshoot effectively
Troubleshoot issues in customer environments involving cloud, server, endpoint, and network infrastructure
Perform activities necessary to quickly mitigate outages and service interruptions in the customer’s environment by recommending and implementing workarounds
Maintain current knowledge and understanding of product roadmaps and emerging technologies