Senior Support Engineer

Microsoft is currently undergoing a massive growth in CE&S organization and we will increase our teams within all Azure technologies. The below mentioned requirements are split per technology groups, therefore if you identify yourself with one of the categories, we would like to meet you
- Please note that there are available multiple vacancies based in numerous locations.

Overview:
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.

As cloud goes mainstream, Azure leads the way. Our continued success depends on providing customers a world class support experience. So, are you customer obsessed? Data Driven? An amazing collaborator & communicator? A skilled troubleshooter and debugger? Then join us in the ARR team, as we are looking for true technical leaders to lead the way

Azure Rapid Response (ARR) is a OneService Team Award winner and a true global team, spread in America, Asia and EMEA. We provide end-to-end Azure solution support for the most critical enterprise customers and the top start-up’s.

**Responsibilities**:
Problem solving through deep troubleshooting, debugging, log analysis
Work with customers to understand their technical needs, and define an action plan to meet them, collaborating with peers or other teams regularly.

Ability to build business relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
Identify problems and/or improvement opportunities via routine review of customer case trends; track and drive mitigation, solution development, and/or team awareness.
Share best practices and other resources based on customer Azure usage areas and observed trends.
Identify and respond to critical customer issues specific to Azure Services or Azure Platform and be able to conduct in-depth diagnostics.
Share knowledge with other engineers and develop customer solutions efficiently.

**Qualifications**:
Language Qualification:
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Any other such as German, Spanish, French, other European language is a plus.

Soft Skills:
Technical Leadership - handle technically challenging and politically sensitive customer situations
Demonstrate ability to recover from dissatisfied-customer situations in collaboration with the team manager.
Ability to discover, recognize and assess alternate solutions to a problem
Ability to have effective communication with various stakeholders within and outside of Microsoft

Technical Skills:
Microsoft Azure Architecture - Fundamentals of Fabric, Compute, Storage
Working knowledge of troubleshooting tools including Sysinternals, Fiddler, Netmon, NetStat, Tracert etc.
Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills, an ability to use various data collection tools and methodologies to analyze problems, determine root cause and develop solutions.

Preferences:
Linux OSS preferred but not mandatory
Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.)
Experience administering Linux (boot process, file systems, network device and protocol configuration)
Familiarity with core OS services such as: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba, LDAP
Solid foundation and background in Microsoft products and technologies
Troubleshooting skills in Network and DNS

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