With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

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 help customers and partners resolve their issues quickly, prevent future problems from occurring, and demonstrate new ways to achieve more from their Microsoft investment. Our customers are facing new and complex challenges keeping their data protected and secure while leaning more heavily on hybrid and cloud solutions to do so.

Our newest CSS organization - Security, Compliance, Identity and Management (SCIM) - was created to further enable our commitment to our company’s collective Security strategy and our ability to handle these critical customer needs from start to finish.

Interested in Azure Cloud Security and Compliance support? Want to be part of one of the Cybersecurity groups? Then come join the CSS Security & Compliance team at Microsoft as a security support engineer responsible for learning and supporting the cutting-edge security products. Experience in one or more of the following products would be needed:

• Microsoft Purview (Security & Compliance)

• Microsoft Defender for Office / O365

• Exchange online

If you already have some experience in SharePoint online and teams, it would be an added advantage.

Your Profile and The Position

As a Security and Compliance support engineer, you will be an elite member of a customer facing support team working on resolving complex issues with Azure Cloud and On-Prem Microsoft security & compliance products. You have extensive experience providing mission critical customer support to external enterprise customers with a focus on helping, advising, and empowering customers to achieve more. You have a passion for learning new technologies, collaborating with other experts to find solutions, having complete customer obsession, continuously optimizing and improving the customer support experience, and having fun. You enjoy working on challenging issues that require in depth investigation, excellent communication, and complete ownership to drive issues to resolution. You obsess over small details to make sure that each customer interaction not only drives issues to resolution, but also ensures that customers are effectively using Microsoft technologies to further the success of their business.

In all interactions with our customers, you communicate effectively, have complete accountability and ownership over providing amazing results, show resourcefulness in providing timely and effective solutions, and approach every situation with empathy, care, and a focus on providing an amazing experience. When you don’t know the answer, you “swarm” with other engineers at Microsoft to come up with a solution quickly, and you aren’t afraid to ask questions and learn new things daily. You don’t let anything block you in the pursuit of a world class customer service experience for our customers.

This position requires extensive cross-group coordination and excellent oral and written communication skills. Attention to detail; and a highly organized, process-focused aptitude are required to manage the variety of responsibilities and deliverables. You must be able to work well under pressure and deadlines, while also exhibiting flexibility and adaptability across a broad organizational matrix.

Beyond extensive technical focus, this role requires the ability to communicate issues and recommendations clearly and concisely and build broad relationships with influencers to impact key business results. You are passionate about improving the customer support experience and the product by collaborating with software developers to recommend feature improvements.

Responsibilities

• Scope and resolve complex issues with onboarding, deployment and configuration of products.

• Advise and educate customers on the features and capabilities of our products

• Interpret and analyze log data to troubleshoot issues

• Communicate solutions and recommendations to the customer and ensure that customers have the information and tools to address similar issues in the future

• Collaborate and coordinate with other teams and experts throughout Microsoft to tailor the best solution for customer issues

• Develop, document, and implement runbooks for training, process standardization, and guidance on how to troubleshoot effectively

• Troubleshoot issues in customer environments involving cloud, server, endpoint, and network infrastructure

• Perform activities necessary to quickly mitigate outages and service interruptions in the customer’s environment by recommending and implementing workarounds

• Maintain current knowledge and understanding of product roadmaps and emerging technologies

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

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

Language Qualification

English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Interested in Azure Cloud security support? Want to be part of one of these Cybersecurity groups? Then come join the CSS Security team at Microsoft as a security support engineer responsible for learning and supporting the cutting-edge security products. If you already have some experience on these, it would be an added advantage:

• System Centre Endpoint Protection

• Azure Antimalware

• Windows Defender

• Microsoft Defender for EndPoint (Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection)

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Azure Security Center)

• Microsoft Sentinel

• Active Directory Rights Management Service

• Azure Key vault

• Microsoft Defender for Clouds Apps (Cloud Application Security (MCAS))

Required Experience

• 2+ years of experience in Network Security Engineering or consulting, and/or Systems Administration.

• 2+ years Customer facing support experience.

• 1+ year Experience on Windows Server, Windows Client, Active Directory and/or Azure Active Directory administration.

• 1+ year enterprise cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security, networking, and migration of multi-cloud or hybrid deployments

• Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 1000+ users

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .