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The world of business is undergoing a significant change with the next Digital Revolution; the move to the cloud. Azure is at the forefront of this revolution with an ever-expanding array of services and offerings.  

We are looking for passionate candidates with experience deploying on any of the public cloud platforms to help us redefine “online support”. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about deploying or supporting cloud services with knowledge of usage patterns for these services.  

As an Azure Cloud Engineer for online support, you will closely monitor and respond to customer questions, representing Microsoft and Azure Engineering in these interactions. You will also be the voice of the customer and have a strong connection into Azure service teams, to identify recurring issues and feature requests to drive product improvements.  

If you are passionate about Cloud Services, a quick learner and enjoy helping customers, we want you!  

Responsibilities

• Support Azure customers real-time through chat, screen sharing, research and call-back, as part of a global support delivery team 
• Ability to go technically deep across Azure services (at least level 200-300) and actively seek solutions to customer needs and communicate trends to leadership 
• Turn Azure customers to Azure fans by improving  support efficiency through finding opportunities to optimize existing processes and tools 
• Building a close working relationship with the teams related to assigned service areas to leverage in case of escalations, as well as to drive product improvements 
• Building and updating Azure product documentation to help customers deliver solutions on Azure 
• Work closely with the feature Engineering teams to report bugs, expedite bug fixes and bubble up feature requests. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science, Information Technology, Computer Science Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent work experience 
• 2+ years of experience working with enterprise customers on Cloud specific solutions, application development and deployment  
• Proven history of customer-obsession, including blog posts, how-to videos, etc 
• Experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and providing solutions for technical issues 
• Some programming/scripting experience (Java, Perl, Ruby, C#, and/or PHP) 
• Certification in Microsoft and/or competing Cloud Technologies.  

• Skills Required: Good understanding of cloud computing technologies across Windows and/or Linux, with demonstrated hands-on experience on one or more of the following domains: 
• Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking 
• Data Platform: SQL, Azure DB, Cosmos DB, HD Insights 
• Website troubleshooting experience: IIS, Azure Web Apps, PHP, Apache, Tomcat, WordPress, etc. 
• Identity and Authentication: SSO/Federation, AD/Azure AD etc. 

• Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, C#, OpenSource) 

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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. 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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