Technical Support Engineer

Overview

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

Empowering customers to harness the full potential of Azure AI by delivering world-class support for Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, and Cognitive Services. We help to support enterprises to resolve complex challenges, drive AI innovation, and ensure seamless adoption of cutting-edge AI solutions. Our mission is to provide expert guidance, proactive solutions, and an exceptional support experience that accelerates customer success in the AI-driven world.

The Microsoft CSS Azure AI team plays a pivotal role in delivering world-class support for Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI, and Cognitive Services. As a key technical expert, you will help enterprise customers overcome complex challenges, optimize AI workloads, and accelerate their AI adoption. This role requires deep technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and a passion for customer success. You will collaborate with engineering teams, influence product improvements, and ensure customers maximize the value of Azure AI solutions.

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

Response and Resolution

• Reviews highly complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., debugging) to help resolve customer issues. Supports the business both locally and globally to drive business. Serves as a technical escalation point.
• Resolves highly complex cases and by working on the end-to-end on case resolution. Serves as an escalation point for other engineers to assist in resolving cases. May have to work with product group or engineering team.
• Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.
• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues.
  
  

Readiness

• Assists in the development of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) for new and existing technology.
  
  

Product/Process Improvement

• Acts as a trusted advisor to the product group, in a designated discipline or technology, to influence, improve, or propose fixes.
• Contributes to product improvements by filing bugs and design change requests, and recommends potential fixes to validate resolution prior to shipping to customer or production in order to prevent customers from being impacted.
• Reviews diagnostic processes and collaborates to design complete systems that simplify tools automation and eliminate systematic diagnostic issues. Builds automation tools.
• Makes improvements based on feedback provided. Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution.
• Leads case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and develop customer solutions. Takes learnings from triage meetings to communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.
  
  

Business Integration

• Uses business integration knowledge to influence strategy when engaging with customers, partners, and teams.
  
  

Other

• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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.
  
  

Other Requirements

• 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.
  
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Technology Certifications.
• 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.
• Experience in one or more of the following:
• Deep understanding of Cloud services (Preferably Azure), (Experience with other cloud service like AWS is also a plus)
• Experience in Azure architecture and its components (Compute, Storage, ARM, Networking)
• Microsoft AI services – Azure Machine Learning
• Python, R, REST concepts, .NET, Java, JavaScript, Scala, C/C++ and debugging
• Familiarity with development: tools, language, process, methods, troubleshooting
• Experience with Data Science, generative AI solutions
  
  

Technical Support Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $91,000 - CAD $168,400 per year.

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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 17, 2025.

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. 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

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