Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical focal point in cooperative relationships with other companies.
• Manage crisis situations that may involve technically challenging issues and diverse audiences.
• Own and resolve technically complex mission critical or politically hot customer issues
• Be responsive to customer needs which may sometimes require outside of normal business hours or on-call rotation.
• Use trace analysis, debug skills, source code, and other proprietary tools, to analyze problems and develop solutions to meet customer needs; this may involve writing code.
• Stay up to date on the leading technologies and technical certifications. Contribute to product improvement, and participate in pre-release activities and BETA programs.
• Development and delivery of training in person or remote to share knowledge with other engineers. Mentoring of new engineers;

Qualifications

Competencies:

• Must possess the ability to work independently with minimal management supervision and as part of regional team of engineers;
• Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills;
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills, create a positive relationship with customers and peers to achieve Win-Win outcomes. Work with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, developers, architects, and executive management.
• Demonstrated exceptional customer service in politically charged environments, overall communication and technical writing skills.
• Exhibit leadership through personal responsibility, accountability and teamwork.

Technical Requirements: 

Primary responsibilities and knowledge requirements include a thorough understanding of one or more of the following products/technologies:

• Working experience in at least two of these languages: C#, Python, Node.JS, Java as well as T-SQL, U-SQL and R
• Knowledge of scripting language such as JavaScript, PowerShell, CLI, etc.
• Experience with big data processing environment, i.e. distributed compute infrastructure or open source like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm.
• Be familiar with Linux dev environment and restful services. Quick learning and troubleshooting skills are needed.
• Experience in NoSQL concept, familiar with MongoDB, Cassandra API
• Working knowledge of Azure machine learning or similar cloud service platforms is a plus

Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA), MCSA: SQL Server are strongly preferred, but not required at hire. Related field (or equivalent) experience will be considered.

Experience: Support Engineer - 2 years of experience working with the technologies described above

Education: Bachelor’s degree or above required

Language: English oral and written proficiency is required

* This position will require you to work a rotational On-Call schedule, evenings and weekend’s shifts.

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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