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 complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth by honing your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and developing your technical proficiency.

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.

Responsibilities

Response and Resolution

• You own, investigate and solve complex customer technical issues and act as a advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices
  
  

Readiness

• You lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others.
• You deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness.
  
  

Product/Process Improvement

• You engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools driving Microsoft product improvements
  
  

Qualifications

Required

5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience

• Knowledge in Linux , OSS Administration
• Knowledge of container technology and fluency in Kubernetes
  
  

Linux , OSS

• Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.)
• Experience with Linux script-based development environments and tools (PERL, Python, Ruby, PhP, etc.)
• Experience in Core Linux administration (boot process, file systems, network device and protocol configuration)
• Familiarity of Docker, Container, AKS
• Expertise in managing cluster environment (SUSE, RedHat, Veritas)
• Familiarity with core OS services such as: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba, LDAP
  
  

Experience in one or more of these areas desirable

Operating System, Virtualization

• Knowledge of LDAP, Security and OS Internals concepts
• Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration (Hyper-V, VMWare, Xen configuration and administration)
• Preferred knowledge of Cloud
  
  

Networking

• Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts
• Knowledge of networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS
• Knowledge of container specific networking concepts such as CNI
• Knowledge of networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, tcpdump, etc.)
• Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies preferred
• Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts
  
  

Microsoft Azure Platform (Preferred)

• Microsoft Azure architecture and its components (Fabric, Compute, Storage)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Platform services
• Azure Platform development and deployment concepts
• Familiarity with development: tools, language, process, methods, troubleshooting