Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.

Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth. The CEnS organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

 

Plan and deliver proactive and reactive support including onsite presence as needed (post Covid restrictions).

Work within a larger virtual account team to strengthen customer relationships and work on mobile-first, cloud-first strategies for immediate and long-term service delivery plans.

Identify and manage goals and opportunities across Azure IaaS to improve customer solution health, performance, and availability.

Drive and participate in proactive delivery management, spot performance issues, analyze problems, and provide solutions to meet customer needs.

Work with support teams, account teams, product engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure a streamlined customer experience.

Apply lessons learned for continuous process and delivery improvement for the customer.

Engage in meetings with customers and account teams to articulate service offerings.

Share and gain knowledge through communities.

Contribute to on-call rotations to ensure a high quality of service for the critical incidents created by Support for Mission Critical customers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

3+ years of Azure related experience is required.

Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following Azure areas is expected:

Developing, debugging, performance tuning and supporting any of the following:

Azure Web Apps/App Services, Web Application Firewall, Azure PaaS, Service Fabric API Management, API Connections, Redis, Web App, Web API, Azure Functions

Service Bus, Key Vault, SignalR

Logic Apps/Function Apps

Notification Hubs

C#, .NET Framework/.NET Core, Java, Python or related

3+ years of experience working with Enterprise customers in any of the following: providing customer technical readiness, delivery support services, technical support, solution development, account management; technical requirements gathering; broad evangelism through events (presentation skills) or related.

Other Qualifications

Experience in systems management, network operations, software support, IT consulting, or related roles.

Solid understanding of client/server, networking, and Internet technologies fundamentals.

The ability to handle customer critical issues and work in difficult situations.

Demonstrate a strong ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships to gain the trust and respect of customers.

Excellent customer service skills, good oral and written communication skills, proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations, lead projects and motivate others.

Certification in Microsoft and other Cloud Technologies.

Ability to take on internal initiatives to create services opportunities, and work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple demands, addressing shifting priorities, and maintaining focus.

Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills, while working with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, developers, architects, and executive account management

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.