Overview

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.

The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Microsoft Customer Engineer specializing in Microsoft Teams. The ideal candidate will help customers empower their employees, maximize employee productivity and drive success and seamless operation of Microsoft Teams to our customers. This role is customer-facing and requires excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to interact with technical, non-technical and leadership contacts at customers.

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:

Acts as the voice of the customer/partners from feedback tools and systems with minimal guidance from more experienced peers. Contributes to identifying and/or translating customer/partner problems into industry solutions. Focuses on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience with minimal guidance. Contributes to the identification, escalation, and mitigation of blockers using appropriate tools. Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies with minimal guidance from more experienced peers. Identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion at scale with minimal guidance. Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record with minimal guidance from more experienced peers. Leverages market insights and demand signals. Contributes to virtual teams using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Identifies gaps that enable solutions to scale across customers with minimal guidance from more experienced peers.

Qualifications:

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 2+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
• Advanced English level.
• Experience with Microsoft Teams administration, including user management, policies and compliance and deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Teams architecture, features, and functionalities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 suite, including Share Point, One Drive, and Exchange.
  Additional or preferred qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 5+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 3+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 2+ years experience working on technical projects.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Work directly with customers to understand their Microsoft Teams requirements and provide expert guidance and support.
• Deliver technical solutions to address customer issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of Microsoft Teams.
• Advanced background in engineering and architectural design of Unified Communications with a focus on Microsoft Teams, PSTN configurations, Teams Enterprise Voice, Direct routing, and telephony infrastructure (such as Session Boarder Controllers and Contacts Centers).
• Experience in conducting technical workshops, training sessions, and webinars to educate customers on the best practices and new features of Microsoft Teams.
• Deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Teams architecture, features, and functionalities.
• Deep knowledge and skills in related solutions such as Share Point, One Drive, Power Platform, Azure AD, Intune and other M365 services
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues related to Microsoft Teams clients, meetings, calls, and integrations.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell to streamline administrative tasks.
• Experience and knowledge in designing and implementing Teams Telephony solutions, including Direct Routing, Calling Plans, Phone System, and Voice Apps and Microsoft Teams Room Systems and related hardware configurations.
• Knowledge of third-party applications and integrations that enhance Microsoft Teams capabilities.
• Experience troubleshooting Microsoft Teams calling, conferencing and call quality issues.
• Knowledge and experience building Teams bot, integration of Microsoft graph into Teams app and knowledge of tools used to develop Teams app. Knowledge of the Microsoft Teams Toolkit is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of application integration and Contact Centers with Teams.
• Advanced knowledge Active Directory/Azure AD/Entra ID concepts and PowerShell/Microsoft Graph scripting skills.
• Advanced networking skills with DNS, firewall, load balancing, etc.
• Advance skills creating Azure Functions
• Microsoft Certified: Teams Administrator Associate or other relevant certifications.
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate

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.