Are you interested in the cloud business? Microsoft Azure is strategic to Microsoft and is enabling customers, ISVs, and Microsoft IT to develop, test, and deploy solutions in the cloud to take advantage of economies of scale, reliability, globally distributed data centers, and generally reduce the effort of managing dedicated IT infrastructure. Microsoft Azure is a growing leader in the cloud market with Azure Support enabling customer success and providing a key differentiator when customers make buying decisions.
Microsoft Azure Support is a strategic unit of Customer Service & Support (CSS) responsible for the following:
1. Resolving customer issues including complex technical scenarios integrating several cloud capabilities (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, AppFabric, etc.) and scenarios supporting a service such as service availability, quality, outage management, subscription management, correlation of usage and charges, and cost efficient solution architecture.
2. Provide critical product feedback to operations, business groups, product groups, and engineering.
As one of the largest services and support networks in the industry, Microsoft Customer Service and Support helps more than one billion customers around the world each year.
As a member of our team, you will be surrounded by people that are insatiably curious and always learning, obsessed about customer success, and who believe that world class support is critical to customer success. You will be part of a very diverse team in an inclusive environment, where all opinions are valued.
We are looking for someone who is a demonstrated lifetime learner and excited about taking on new challenges to be the face of Microsoft to our customers and work directly with our most relevant internal groups to drive change that enhances the customer experience.
The opportunity for you is to be part of the evolution of Microsoft Azure and cloud support services, to be constantly challenged as the platform expands to provide broader capabilities to customers, support customers using a service rather than on-premise Microsoft products, and to work in collaboration with multiple Microsoft teams (operations, business groups, product groups, and engineering.)
The Support Engineer (SE) is a critical role in the resolution of complex support incidents related to supporting customer use of the Microsoft Azure platform.
A commerce Support Engineer is knowledgeable in Microsoft Azure services, technologies, offerings and the Azure billing platform. The successful Support Engineer has the drive and intellectual horsepower to resolve difficult customer issues; directly supports customers through telephone and email,; escalates issues quickly when deep, specific skills or other capabilities are required; ability to use knowledge of the Microsoft Azure architecture and offerings to provide customer resolution and proactive customer recommendations; has excellent communication skills and is fluent in English; writes excellent case documentation; and is able to handle challenging and politically-sensitive customer situations.
