Overview

Support Engineers (SE) serve as frontline technical resources for Microsoft customers and partners via phone, email or web. They deliver unique value by collaboratively and reactively solving customer problems, providing proactive support advice, contributing to product quality and enhancements and creating self-help assets to broadly reach more customers. You will be part of a team responsible for providing an outstanding technical support experience to our business customers. From problem identification to full resolution, you will own and manage the customer experience over the phone and Web. When needed, you will collaborate with others to engage subject matter experts, Engineering (Product Groups) or Management. Your day to day job will be about providing both technical expertise (either on your own or by involving your colleagues) and about being an excellent communicator and a service oriented professional. You will be given the opportunity to become a subject matter expert in one or more areas and receive guidance and mentorship from your colleagues.

Responsibilities

·         Responsible for the customer support experience with Microsoft

·         Own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues, using collaboration, troubleshooting best practices and transparency within and across teams (e.g. swarming)

·         Identify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically)

·         Create and maintain incident management requests to product group/engineering group

·         Contribute to case deflection initiatives, automation and other digital self-help assets to improve customer/ engineer experience

·         Provide ramp activities, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring

·         Drive technical collaboration & engagement outside of CSS (Product Engineering teams/Services/Support/Regions)

·         Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles; may be workload or specialty specific

Requirements

·         Exception Handling

·         Memory Management concepts

·         Tools - Netmon, Perfmon, SQL Profiler

·         Basic debugging skills

·         Basic SQL Server Administration concepts Experience in one or more of these areas desirable

·         Critical Exposure areas & Technical Specifications

·         Strong experience in Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 server

·         Exposure on SQL and IIS

Language

English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking. Optional: German/French/Italian