Overview
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 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 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
Message from Team Manager
The Microsoft Azure Platform enables customers to develop, test, and deploy solutions in the cloud. With its investment in hyperscale infrastructure, commitment to reliability, and globally distributed data centers, Azure helps reduce the effort required to manage dedicated IT infrastructure. It is a strategic foundation of Microsoft and a continuously growing leader in the cloud market. Azure empowers customer success and provides key differentiators that influence purchasing decisions.

Our team is rapidly expanding, and we are seeking talented individuals who are eager to grow, passionate about solving complex problems, and dedicated to making customers happy. At Microsoft Customer Service and Support, every day is unique. We tackle challenging issues, collaborate and share learnings, and deliver solutions that help customers get the most out of Microsoft products.

As a support engineer, you will become part of a team that delivers exceptional technical support experiences to our customers. You will handle issues from identification to resolution via phone and web support. When necessary, you will collaborate with colleagues, consult with subject matter experts, or escalate to engineers and managers in the product group.

Your daily work as a Microsoft support engineer will involve developing technical expertise—individually and with your peers—and becoming a professional with excellent communication and service skills. You will also have opportunities to become a subject matter expert in specific areas and receive guidance and mentorship from colleagues.

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

Responsibilities Include
The support engineer is responsible for support delivery, providing technical support to Azure customers by resolving escalated, complex technical customer issues on the Azure Platform and delivering Azure Technical Support against CPE and workflow efficiency targets; to identify required tools, cloud access, training, processes or capabilities to assess customer issues in less than 15 minutes; and to keep escalations to PG operations below 10% of the volume. The SE will need to closely collaborate with PG engineering and operations, and other CTS engineers.

The support engineer is a critical role in the implementation of Azure Platform support capabilities which include working with the PG and Azure Supportability PMs to implement asks; identify technology, and/or process readiness needs, and work with Training PMs and Tech Leads to ensure support team readiness; develop relationships with and engage with technology-specific depth queues for customer incident resolution when required.

Specific measurements include achieving the CPE team goals, time to resolution or escalation, enabling a response time similar to competitors; maintaining technical skills through completion of ongoing readiness and Platform training; and, in general participating in the creation of future Microsoft support capabilities for the cloud.

Working Hours and Shifts
Standard business hours, Monday through Friday (excluding company holidays). Shifts are scheduled from 8:00 AM–4:30 PM or 9:00 AM–5:30 PM JST, based on global resource allocation and customer requirements.

• Schedules are flexibly coordinated among team members based on business and personal circumstances.

Other Application Requirements
Applicants must reside in Japan to apply for this position.

Qualifications
Required
3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience

• Strong knowledge and understanding of TCP, IP protocols and OSI model
• Experience with Infrastructure , Network Administration
• Expertise troubleshooting large Network Environments and familiarity with packet sniffers: Wireshark or Network Monitor, Message Analyzer
• Fundamental awareness of Private, Hybrid, Public Cloud, OS : Windows and, or Linux, Virtualization of SDN technologies
• Knowledge and understanding of VPN, IPsec, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, s, MPLS, BGP, Layer3, Layer2
• Hands-on experience of Proxy and Firewall

Language Qualification
We provide services to clients in various countries in English, while internal communication is also conducted in Japanese.

• English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.
• Japanese Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking.

Soft Skills

• Leadership - handle technically challenging and politically hot customer situations
• Strong communications skills - Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
• Effective, polished interaction with customer to gather information
• Demonstrable troubleshooting skills
• Cross-team collaboration
• Logical and Critical thinking
• Passion for technology and customer support
• Understanding of cloud vs. on premise computing

Technical Skills
Technical depth in the current technology and willing to learn new skills.

Knowledge of one of the following domains will be beneficial but not mandatory: Windows Azure Platform, Operating System/Virtualization, and Networking.

Windows Azure Platform

– Knowledge of Windows Azure Platform services

– Azure Platform development and deployment concepts

– Familiarity with troubleshooting

Operating System/Virtualization

– Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts

– Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration

– Experience with Hyper-V configuration and administration

Networking

– Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS

– Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, wire shark, etc.)

– Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies preferred

– Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about
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