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.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and develop your technical proficiency.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% 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 Qualification:

• Hands-On working experience in technical support, technical consulting domain, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field.

• Microsoft Azure Architecture - Fundamentals of Fabric, Compute, Storage etc.

• Conceptual knowledge of Azure IaaS deployments and administration.

• Familiarity with OS Internals concepts, built-in diagnostics, Active Directory and Security (Windows and or Linux).

• Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration.

• Must have worked in SAN, NAS, Hyper-V, VMWare, iSCSI environment.

• Good knowledge of networking concepts including TCP, IP, NAT, DNS and troubleshooting tools including Sysinternals, Fiddler, Netmon, NetStat, Tracert etc.

Preferred Skills:

• Linux, OSS (preferred):

o Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.)

o Experience administering Linux (boot process, file systems, network device and protocol configuration).

o Familiarity with core OS services such as: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba, LDAP.

Language Qualification:
Portuguese OR Spanish Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.
English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking.

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.