Senior Technical Support Advisor

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

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 Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen 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.

Responsibilities

• Team Readiness & Development: You will ensure timely case resolution by driving engineer readiness based on skills-gap analysis and product needs.
• Case Management (Delivery Excellence): You will perform case reviews and customer wellness checks; ensure process compliance and progression of cases to help solve increasingly complex technical issues.
• Managing Collaborative Activities: Mentor engineers to be more effective collaborators (cross-team and cross-technologies/lines of business).
• Supportability Activities: You will contribute to customer self-help and volume deflection initiatives through activities like input on top pain areas and producing troubleshooting guides/readiness content to help with volume deflection.
• Process Improvement: Collaborate with stakeholder teams to provide product and process improvement feedback.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience
• OR Bachelor's degree in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering, or Business Leadership AND 3+ years in system development, network operations, software support, IT, consulting or technical troubleshooting experience.
• 3+ years of prior product, customer support and/or technical support experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Technical depth in the current technology and willing to learn new skills. Understanding of Microsoft 365 services or other cloud offerings. PowerShell skills are mandatory
• Deep knowledge of cloud offerings like M365, Exchange Online, OWA, Outlook for MAC, Outlook for Windows and the New Outlook
• Understanding of Identity solutions like ADFS, DirSync/AADSync and Single Sign-On
• Understanding of different cloud models like IAAS, PAAS and SAAS
• Troubleshooting basic connectivity issues
• Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts
• Networking :Understanding of networking concepts including IP Addressing, Subnetting, Routing, NAT, DNS, DHCP, ARP, VPN technologies

Language Qualification

English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking.

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