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.

The Microsoft Azure SQL Database support team is dedicated to providing exceptional technical assistance and solutions to ensure the optimal performance and reliability of Azure SQL Database services. Our team collaborates closely with customers to resolve complex issues, enhance database security, and improve overall user experience. We strive to empower businesses by delivering expert guidance and support for their cloud-based database needs.

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.

Response and Resolution:
You own, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.
Acts as an advisor to the customer and handles complex, repeatable, or escalated cases that may become politically charged. Creates technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edits or creates news/ knowledge-base articles) that is internal or customer facing for better customer understand. Provides best practices and education to ensure customer understands the problem in order to proactively resolve potential issues in the future.
Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.

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.
Implements end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) and contributes to the content and readiness strategy.
Mentors Technical Support Engineers or members from other teams outside of Customer Service and Support (CSS). Develops expert level competence on support topics.

Product/Process Improvement:
You identify potential product defects and escalate appropriately to resolve, contributing to Microsoft product improvements.
Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement. Leverages overall product knowledge to determine if and when features require enhancements.
Engages with engineering team to investigate product bugs, provides business impact, and collaborates with appropriate stakeholders and senior team members on fixes.
Contributes to and/or develops automation techniques and diagnostic tools to improve cross-group effectiveness.
Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution.
Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.

Business Integration:
Implements strategic business decisions with customers, partners, and teams to increase market share. Influences peers to implement strategy.