▷ High Salary Azure Advanced Cloud Engineer 2

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.

Every minute of every day, customers stake their entire business and reputation on the Microsoft Cloud. The Azure Customer Experience (CXP) team believes that when we meet our high standards for quality and reliability, our customers win. If we falter, our customers fail their end-customers. Our vision is to turn Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. We are the ACES Strategic team (Advanced Cloud Engineering & Supportability), a global engineering team in Azure CXP and we are focused on Strategic Azure Customers. We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers. We orchestrate and drive deep engagements in areas like Incident Management, Problem Management, Support, Resiliency, and empowering the customers. We represent the customer and amplify customer voice with Azure Engineering connecting to the quality vision for Azure. We innovate and find ways to scale our learning across our customer base. Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are, how we work, and what we enable our customers to achieve. We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically, work in ways that are best for them, and achieve their career goals.

Are you constantly customer-obsessed and passionate about solving complex technical problems? Do you take pride in enhancing customer experience through innovation? If the answer is Yes, then join us and surround yourself with people who are passionate about cloud computing and believe that extraordinary support is critical to customer success. As a customer focused Advanced Cloud Engineer, you are the primary engineering contact accountable for your customer’s support experience on Azure. You will drive resolution of critical and complex problems, support key customer projects on Azure and be the voice of the customer within Azure. In this role, you will work in partnership with Customer Success Account Managers, Cloud Solution Architects, Technical Support Engineers, and Azure engineering with our mission to turn Azure customers into fans with world-class engineering-led support experience.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor/'s Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 2+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering
- 2+ years of demonstrated experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications and infrastructure resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations.
- 1+ years of Experience with being on-call and driving mitigation for mission critical incidents.

Preferred Qualifications

- Technical Skills: Demonstratedhands-on experience with expertise in one or moreof the following Cloudtechnologies:
- Core IaaS: Compute (Windows/Linux), Storage, Networking, Kubernetes, High Availability
- Azure PaaS Services: App Services, Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and Event Hub.
- Monitoring technologies: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, Confluent and similar technologies.
- Communication skills: ability to empathize with customers and convey confidence. Able to explain highly technical issues to varied audiences. Able to prioritize and advocate customer’s needs to the proper channels. Take ownership and work towards a resolution.
- Customer Obsession: Passion for customers and focus on delivering the right customer experience.
- Growth Mindset: Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Other Qualifications:

- The 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.

Responsibilities

Technically Oriented

- With minimal oversight, track customer incidents, engage with strategic customers and partners to understand issues, contribute to troubleshooting through diagnostics, communicate progress and next steps to customers with a focus on reducing time taken to mitigate critical incidents.
- Use engineering and support tools, customer telemetry and/or direct customer input to detect and flag issues in the products or with the customer usage of the products. Help customers stay current with best practices by sharing content.
- Identify and leverage developmental opportunities across product areas and business processes (e.g., mentorships, shadowing, trainings) for professional growth and to develop technical skills to resolve customer issues.

Customer Solution Lifecycle Management

- With minimal guidance, serve as a connecting point between the product team and customers throughout the engagement life cycle, engage with customers to understand their business and availability needs, develop and offer proactive guidance on designing configurations and deploying solutions on Azure with support from subject matter experts.
- Handle critical escalations on customer issues from the customer or support or field teams, conduct impact analysis, help customers with answers to their technical questions, and serve as an escalation resource in areas of subject matter expertise.
- Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of issues and translates findings into opportunities for improvement and track and drive them as repair items.

Relationship/Experience Management

- Act as the voice of customers and channel product feedback from strategic customers to product groups. Identify customer usage patterns and drive resolutions on reoccurring issues with product groups. Close the feedback loop with the customers on product features.
- With minimal guidance, partner with other teams (e.g., program managers, software engineers, product, customer service support teams), prioritize, unblock, and resolve critical customer issues.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to support delivery of solutions to strategic customers and resolving customer issues.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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