Technical Support Engineer

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 CSS, our Digital Transformation Platform (DTP) group delivers world-class support for our global customers on their digital transformation journey. We provide valuable support solutions on a wide range of technologies, including Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), Business Intelligence and Power BI, SQL, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform, that elevate our customers' trust in Microsoft and improve their business performance.

Interested in being on the cutting edge of Cloud Services? Then come join Microsoft as an Embedded Escalation Engineer (EEE) working with Azure Analytics.  As EEE, you will be working with Azure Databricks Engineering team within support to be "the" differentiator in the marketplace and need the best and brightest to take our Azure Analytics Service to the next level.

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.

As an Embedded Escalation Engineer (EEE), you will be an important member of the Customer Service and Support (CSS) Data and AI Support Engineering Team and a virtual member of the Azure Databricks Product Group. You will have the following key responsibilities:

• Lead engineering investigations to bring quicker issue resolution to support incidents impacting our customers and improve customer experience.

• Build solutions, help create tools, help automate issue detection and diagnosis, to enable customers or support to self-resolve the issues.

• Identify emerging trends or re-occurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them from the workflow. This can include a range of potential work item categories; such as self-healing mechanisms, self-serve, transparency, automation, and/or increasing the capabilities for Azure support.

• Contribute to product improvements by filing impactful bugs, design change requests and helping developers to fix and ship them to production, preventing customers from being impacted.

• As a trusted advisor to the Microsoft Azure engineering team and the Serviceability Technology Lead, you will suggest changes to future versions to better equip our support teams as well as our partners and customers and help influence in-market solutions today.

• As a customer ambassador, you will also partner with engineering leadership for strategic technical, architectural and design discussions, and drive strategic thought leadership for Azure Diagnostics/UDE tools creation and usage worldwide bringing the customer voice to the center of impactful decisions. These strategic areas of focus will target our highest impact pain points for our partners, customers and team members.

• Able to work well in challenging situations while exhibiting flexibility and ability tolerate and manage through ambiguity and uncertainty.

• Beyond extensive technical and product focus, this role requires the ability to frame and communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely, show exceptional attention to detail, and demonstrate the ability to build broad relationships with the right influencers, leveraging those relationships to impact key business results. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of the competitive landscape and use this understanding to influence decision makers in both support and the Azure Databricks Product Group.
It's your chance to:

• Work directly with our Azure Databricks Product Group to provide world-class engineering support at a product component level.

• Perform complex product debugging and remediation when needed; working alongside the development teams to drive support incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers.

• Embedded Escalation Engineers are not expected to write product code; however, should be able to apply their code skills and understanding towards efficiently resolving support issues as appropriate.

• Identify emerging trends or recurring escalation scenarios and drive engineering opportunities to mitigate and/or eliminate them from the workflow. This can include a range of potential work item categories; such as self-healing mechanisms, transparency, automation, and/or increasing the capabilities of Azure Databricks analytics and AI Platform.

• Provide periodic on-call rotation (low frequency) service as primary response to service escalations.
The position is primarily "behind the scenes" providing engineering support to the broader Microsoft SQL Cloud support delivery teams for incidents that require product group engagement. At the same time, individuals should be capable and prepared to occasionally engage directly with customers to help facilitate incident resolution as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
o OR 7+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.
o OR equivalent experience

• 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing or support role in any of the following: technical escalation support, product support, developer support, IT DevOps, IT Admin/support, Systems Development, or Consulting or IT/Network Operations.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
o Microsoft Azure Platform
o Azure Networking Services, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Storage
o Microsoft Azure Analytics – Azure Databricks
o Experience in any JAVA, JavaScript, Python, R, Scala, REST concepts, PowerShell
o Familiarity with development: tools, language, process, methods, troubleshooting
o Experience with Data Integration solutions and services
o Experience with Open-Source technology preferred
o Service engineering and/or DevOps experience at internet scale involving user data and/or software development for an enterprise level product

• Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills, an ability to use various data collection tools and methodologies to analyze problems and develop solutions

• BS in computer science or engineering or equivalent industry experience is preferred

Note: This job required weekend shift and outside office hours on-call rotation coverage.

To be eligible for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents who are legally entitled to work in Australia without any restrictions.

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.

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