Technical Support Engineer - Defender for Office

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.

Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for candidate with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Technical Support Engineer - Defender for Office on our Defender for Office team, you will own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and develop your technical proficiency.

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 complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools to help resolve customer issues.
• Resolves customer issues through problem solving, collaboration, and research. May take escalated issues as needed. Documents technical work and research.
• Performs in-depth product troubleshooting and remediation when needed.
• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve moderately complex customer issues.
  
  

Readiness

• Assists in the implementation of end-to-end readiness programs. Develops readiness content. Mentors new Technical Support Engineers. Develops intermediate level competence on support topics.
  
  

Product/Process Improvement

• Provides feedback to upper-level engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement.
• Identifies potential defects and escalates to more upper-level engineers to resolve.
• Applies broad knowledge of automated tools being used across other technologies and products. Provides feedback for tool improvement.
• Identifies and provides feedback to address process gaps in an effort to streamline processes and shares best practices broadly.
• Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.
  
  

Response and Resolution

• You own, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
• You lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles and, where appropriate, share your knowledge.
• You develop specific technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve customer issues, through training and readiness.
• Product/Process Improvement: You identify potential product defects and escalate appropriately to resolve, contributing to Microsoft product improvements.
  
  

Other

• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ year(s) 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.
• This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports local Canadian government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Technology Certifications.
• API Troubleshooting
  
  

Technical Support Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $66,500 - CAD $128,300 per year.

Find additional pay information here: Canada pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 21, 2024.

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