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Microsoft · 1 day ago

Advanced Cloud Engineer in Customer Support (ACE) - CTJ - Poly

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$101K/yr - $199K/yr

2+ years exp

Microsoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking an Advanced Cloud Engineer in Customer Support to join their Customer Advocacy & Engineering team. The role involves collaborating with customers to resolve issues, providing technical guidance, and working closely with product engineering teams to improve service quality for Azure, Security, and Identity services.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Gathers feedback from the customers and partners to learn ways in which customers and partners use the service and identify feature and knowledge gaps, misconfigurations, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) in the current product. Helps customers and partners stay current with best practices by sharing content via multiple forums. Identifies content improvement or troubleshooting guides. Helps implement automation of complex solutions

Identifies and leverages potential developmental opportunities across product areas and business processes (e.g., mentorships, shadowing, trainings) for professional growth and to develop and execute on technical intensity/skilling to resolve customer issues

Conducts health checks to ensure customer environment (e.g., product, service, feature) is optimized and configured for deployment. With minimal guidance, provides guidance to customers on understanding and implementing new versions, software updates, and releases of platforms within Microsoft. With minimal guidance, serves as a connecting point between the engineering team and customers representatives throughout the solution lifecycle. With minimal guidance, conducts feature reviews on new deployment to identify gaps. With managerial support, provides guidance to customers on designing configurations and deploying solutions on Microsoft platforms. With minimal guidance, engages with customers to understand their business and availability needs to then help develop guidance to meet deployment needs

Serves as a connecting point and escalates specific customer issues to appropriate teams to resolve customer issues. Communicates progress and keeps stakeholders aligned with respect to escalations. With some supervision, handles escalations on customer issues from the support or field teams. Escalates issues to seniors or managers within the team, if more assistance is needed. With minimal oversight, conducts root-cause analysis of the issues and follows up with the customers

Collaborates with the relevant product and business groups on how customers use the product. Understands and identifies gaps in customer scenarios and product limitations. Provides details to the product and business groups on customer product experience and usage. With minimal supervision, acts as a voice of customers (VOCs) to inform product and business groups on customer product experience and usage

With minimal guidance, partners with other teams (e.g., program managers, software engineers, product, customer service support [CSS] teams) to review and unblock, and resolve customer incidents/issues. Collaborates with internal partner teams to supports delivery of solutions back to the customers. Informs stakeholders on customer progression including issues. Independently starts to build partnerships with internal technical teams to update the troubleshooting resources. With minimal guidance, works with the relevant product and business groups to resolve customer issues

Embody our culture and values

Qualification

Cloud ComputingTechnical SupportCustomer Experience EngineeringData AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceCollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication

Required

Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 2+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role

Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination

This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements

You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment

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 U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions

Citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance