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.
With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.
Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth. The CEnS organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.
Technical Advisors are responsible for ensuring the development of Support Engineers (SE) technical capabilities. The TA is an expert at coaching and mentoring on case management standards which enable engineers to improve throughput and handle ever-more complex cases. TAs deliver unique value by utilizing their technical knowledge to ensure ramp-up and readiness of the Support Engineering staff to assist customers with issues while maintaining a high-quality bar.
An Engineer TA is a service delivery focused subject matter expert. You will own incident metrics such as Speed of Resolution, Solution, etc. as well as quality of the support experience. The primary responsibility is to the engineers in a regional team, focusing on the higher volume services and engaging through technical mentorship, readiness. Your primary activities are targeted towards support incidents and individual mentoring to unblock customer technical issues directly with support engineers. You will also manage collaboration across teams and escalations.
A Service TA is focused on the success of one or more services and of the overall pod or team. You will own service metrics such as Speed of Resolution, Solution, etc. and deflection rates. Responsibility is spread across various stakeholders like team managers, Engineer TAs, Supportability PMs and PG. Your primary activities are targeted towards supportability (of the product or service) and overall pod, team effectiveness, in partnership with Serviceability. Primary focus is making sure that service delivery has tools, processes, and documentation to resolve incidents.
Responsibilities
TA Responsibilities
Identify and analyze skill-gaps in team or Pod; contribute to the creation of readiness plans and content
Own Case management duties (technical review, triage, incoming inspection for SIE (Service Interruption Event), case progression, impact to customer wellness, reduced time to... measures)
Enable swarming and collaboration activities, including advanced troubleshooting
Approve and review escalations (regardless of destination - to Escalation Engineer or Engineering Group)
Improve existing and develop new troubleshooting workflows and troubleshooting guides (TSG)
Ensure landing of new feature onboarding
Own cases, as business demands
Provide ramp activities for junior engineers, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring
Drive technical collaboration and 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
Optional Responsibilities
Technical interviews for new hires
Assist acting team manager or POD lead
Interface with CSAM to maintain good customer relations (Premier-focused LOBs)
Process improvement feedback to appropriate DP and MSFT stakeholders
PG Collaboration including triages
Approval of escalations to product group (known as ICMs, Bugs or similar – varies by SBU)
Direct customer contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise)
Influence behaviors to derive desired outcomes replaced Provide Metrics Oversight
Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific.
Release management and deployment (ensure it happens, do not own directly)
Trends, forecast for LOB
Responsible for oversight of Speak Up! items (Consumer)
Optional Responsibilities for an Engineer TA
Readiness content - identify need for and, or create content
Assist, acting team Manager, POD lead
Interface w, TAM to maintain good customer relations (Premier-focused LOBs)
Direct customer contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise)
Influence behaviors to derive desired outcomes replaced Provide Metrics Oversight
Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific.
Direct customer contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise)
Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE, EE, EEE, TA); may be workload or specialty specific.
Trends, forecast for business
Qualifications
Language Qualification English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.
Required Windows System Administration, Configuration, including a good basic understanding of:
Registry
File Storage
User Accounts and Access Control
Event Logs and Auditing
Performance, Resource Monitor
Networking (TCP, IP)
Experience in one or more of these areas desirable
Automated installation of Windows User Profile management Windows Update management Kerberos and delegation Bitlocker administration Windows Shell configuration and management Windows Activation, Licensing Remote Desktop Services configuration and management Clustering Printing configuration and management Resilient Storage technology (clustering, storage spaces) Server management tools Hyper-V management and VM deployment Application installation and management Windows backup and VSS PowerShell scripting Active Directory topology and management Network Tracing and analysis Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployment, management Remote File Systems (SMB) Group Policy management DNS deployment, management Troubleshooting hangs and crashes in Windows Network Virtualisation (Hyper-V, SDN) Troubleshooting performance issues using PerfMon and other tools
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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