MECM Technical Support Engineer

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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.

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.

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

• Experience in WSUS, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune

• Strong experience in modern operating systems – Windows 10, Windows 11, server 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025

• Operating Systems Concepts - Active Directory, Security, OS Internals

• Windows Administration concepts - Active Directory, GPO, PKI, Kerberos

• Networking concepts - DNS, protocols, routing, Devices

• IIS Concepts - Configuration, ISAPI, Architecture, SSL and Kerberos

• Tools - Netmon, Perfmon, SQL Profiler

• Basic SQL Server Administration concepts

Experience in one or more of these areas desirable

• Experience in ConfigMgr implementation, administration or troubleshooting

• OS Performance concepts

• Tools - Perfmon, SQL Profiler, Sysinternals suite

• Exception Handling

• Memory Management concepts

• Basic debugging skills

Language Qualification

English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking.
Optional: German/French/Spanish/Italian

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.

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/engineering group

• Contribute to case deflection initiatives, automation and other digital self-help assets to improve customer/ engineer experience

• Provide ramp activities, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring

• Drive technical collaboration & 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