Technical Support Engineering

Job Location: Bucharest, Romania

Contract Type: Full-Time Employee

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 on-site in Bucharest, Romania and will require candidates work in the office 5 days per week.

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 review, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.

• Readiness: You participate in communities with peer delivery roles.  

• You develop specific technical and professional proficiency to enable you to understand and resolve customer issues, through training and readiness. 

• Product/Process Improvement: You identify potential product defects and provide feedback to more senior engineers, contributing to Microsoft product improvements.

• Operate in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment, balancing multiple cases and priorities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Commitment to a growth mindset, continuous learning, and collaboration across functions

Required Qualifications

• 1+ year(s) technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR experience working in a multi-cultural or global team environment OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Business Operatios or Communications or related field.
• Experience working in a multicultural or global team environment

Language requirements: 

• This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational English as all business operations as well as customer communications are conducted in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience problem solving and providing solutions to customers
• Customer Support experience for large corporate customers

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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