Every minute of every day, customers stake their entire business and reputation on Microsoft Cloud. The Azure Engineering Operations (EngOps) team believes that when we meet our high standards for quality and reliability, our customers win. If we falter, our customers fail their end-customers. Our vision is to turn Microsoft Cloud customers into fans.

We are the ACES Strategic team (Advanced Cloud Engineering & Supportability), a global engineering team in EngOps and we are focused on Strategic Azure Customers. We are customer obsessed problem-solvers. We orchestrate deep engagements in areas like incident management, support and enablement. We analyze and amplify those customer voices, both within our own team, and across the Cloud + AI team, bringing the customer connection to the Quality vision for Azure. We innovate ways to scale what we learn across our customer base. Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are, how we work, and what we enable our customers to achieve. We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically, work in ways that are best for them, and achieve their career goals.

Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing teams within Microsoft Azure Engineering? Are you constantly customer-obsessed, and focused on enhancing customer experience? Are you passionate about cloud computing and love the challenge of solving the most complex technical problems?

Come join us and surround yourself with people who are passionate about cloud computing and believe that extraordinary support is critical to customer success.

As a customer focused Senior Advanced Cloud Engineer, you are the primary support and engineering contact accountable for the customer’s Azure support experience driving resolution of complex critical problems and supporting key customer projects on Azure. You will also act as the voice of the customer within Azure to escalate problems and to drive prioritization of platform/support improvement needs for customers.
In this role, you will work together with field teams (Customer Success Account Managers, Cloud Solution Architects, Support Escalation Engineers) and Azure engineering teams with our mission to turn Azure customers into fans with a world-class engineering-led support experience.

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.

Technical Oriented

• Track customer incidents, engage with strategic customers and partners to understand issues, contribute to troubleshooting through diagnostics, communicate progress and next steps to customers with a focus on reducing time taken to mitigate critical incidents.
• Use engineering and support tools, customer telemetry and/or direct customer input to detect and flag trends/patterns of issues in the products or products misuse across customers. Develop and share insights and best practices with customers.
• Recommend and help develop training/readiness modules (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks). Acts as a mentor, shares knowledge, and contributes to the content and readiness strategy for the team.

Customer Solution Lifecycle Management

• Serve as a connecting point between the product team and customers throughout the engagement lifecycle, engage with customers to understand their business and availability needs, develop and offer proactive guidance on designing configurations and deploying solutions on Azure.
• Handle complex escalations on customer issues from the customer or support or field teams, conduct impact analysis, help customers with answers to their technical questions, and serve as an escalation resource in areas of subject matter expertise.
• Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of issues and translates findings into opportunities for improvement and track and drive them as repair items.
• Serve as a connecting point between the product team and customers throughout the engagement lifecycle, engage with customers to understand their business and availability needs, develop and offer proactive guidance on designing configurations and deploying solutions on Azure.
• Handle complex escalations on customer issues from the customer or support or field teams, conduct impact analysis, help customers with answers to their technical questions, and serve as an escalation resource in areas of subject matter expertise.
• Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of issues and translates findings into opportunities for improvement and track and drive them as repair items.

Relationship/Experience Management

• Acts as a voice of customers and leverages customers' feedback to provide input on business plans developed by the relevant product and business groups. Identifies customer usage patterns and driving resolutions on reoccurring customer issues with engineering and product and business groups. Leads their team in engaging with feature and product groups on redesign/customer requested changes for Microsoft products. Close the loop of feedback with the customers on product features.
• Partners with other teams (e.g., program managers, software engineers, product, customer service support [CSS] teams) prioritize, unblock, and resolve critical customer issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions to strategic customers and develop mechanisms that improve customer health and reduce the turnover time.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering
  • OR equivalent 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 qualifications

• 4 years of demonstrated IT experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations.
• Critical Requirement: Japanese language skill – this person will be part of our virtual team focused on supporting Japanese customers and needs to be conversant in the language.· Ability to speak, understand, read and write Japanese language.
• 2+ years of experience with being on - call and driving mitigation for mission critical incidents.
• Technical Skills: Demonstrated hands on experience in one or more of the following:
  • Core IaaS: Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability, Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Data Platform and Bigdata: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, HDInsight/Hadoop, Machine Learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Factory / Data Bricks, Cosmos DB
  • Azure PaaS Services: App Services, Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and Event Hub
  • Monitoring technologies: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, Confluent and similar technologies
• Communication skills:
  • Ability to empathize with customers and convey confidence.
  • Able to explain highly technical issues to varied audiences. Able to prioritize and advocate customer’s needs to the proper channels. Take ownership and work towards a resolution.
• Customer Obsession:
  • Passion for customers and focus on delivering the right customer experience.
• Growth Mindset:
  • Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Customer Experience Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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 requesting accommodations.