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.

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 people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen your technical proficiency.

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: You own, investigate, and solve complex customer technical issues and act as an advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
• Readiness: You lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others.
• You deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness.
• Product/Process Improvement: You engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools driving Microsoft product improvements.

Qualifications

• Adaptability, flexibility and the ability to do the right thing under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Great interpersonal and communication skills-both oral and written-and success in partnering with groups inside and outside of Microsoft.
• A self-motivated and independent thinker that shows initiative and routinely translates circumstances and understanding into actions that move the business forward in a measurable manner.
• Ability to distil, prioritize and act on feedback from a variety of sources.
• Conviction and courage to drive decisions and defend positions as appropriate.
• Strong customer service skills, accurate and logical problem solving, and communication skills, plus the ability to excel in a team environment is essential
• Strong troubleshooting skills of complex technical issues involving multiple technologies
• Collaborative and inclusive mindset
• Ability to handle high pressure situations well, while maintaining calm and composure in stressful situations is a must.
• Strong ability to lead, perform, and deliver results in high pressure situations with multiple parties involved
• Ability to handle multiple customer issues and effectively balance your priority need.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in any STEM related field that has a significant computing element

Required (but not limited to the below) Skills & experience in the following areas:

• MS SQL Server DBA experience
• Installing, upgrading & updating SQL Server
• Configuring & Administrating SQL Server and SQL Server on Azure VM as per best practices.
• Backup Strategies
• Performance Tuning & optimizing.
• High Availability & DR solutions (Always On Availability Groups, FCI, Windows Server Clustering Service, Replication, Log Shipping)
• Security (Encryption at rest(TDE), Encryption in transit(SSL))
• Compression
• Understanding of Database properties and advanced configuration options
• Table Partitioning

Note: This job required weekend shift and outside office hours on-call rotation coverage.

To be eligible for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens or New Zealand citizens who are legally entitled to work in Australia without any restrictions.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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.