Responsibilities

Represent Microsoft and communicates with customers and partners in Asia Pacific and GCR region via telephone, written correspondence, or electronic service regarding technically complex issues, and manage relationships with those customers. Frequently, these problems will not only be technically complex, but will be politically charged situations requiring the highest level of customer skill.

Use trace analysis, source code, and other sophisticated tools to analyze problems and develop solutions to meet customer needs; may involve writing code.

Work directly with the Operations and Product Engineering teams to obtain product design information or isolate both bug and non-bug related issues.

Create technical content including Knowledge Base articles, whitepapers, training documents, etc.

Assist with selection of new team members.

May act as technical focal point in cooperative relationships with other companies.

Competencies:

Logical and methodical troubleshooting and problem solving both technically and on an interpersonal level.

Communication skills that allow you to take lead and control the communication with frustrated or upset customers.

Working in a team environment to collaborate and/or lead efforts from resolving customer issues to helping to define long term strategic goals.

Demonstrated leadership skills and strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Fluent English oral and written communication skill is required.

Qualifications

Must possess the ability to work independently with minimal management supervision and as part of international team of Escalation Engineers

Demonstrated aptitude for providing exceptional customer service in politically charged environments.

Demonstrated knowledge and ability to mentor others in all areas of a Support Engineer’s job including setting customer expectations, devising and implementing action plans, advanced technical troubleshooting, managing hot customer escalations, and professionally communicating to all parties involved

Ability to enhance the technical expertise of peers via the development of product training, mentoring of new hires, and through content development.

Ability to apply technology to improve existing products and systems at customers and for internal use.

Ability to actively participate in team support by proposing and implementing solutions.

Must be willing to develop and execute a self-improvement plan on an ongoing basis to meet changing job expectations within acceptable business timeframes.

Ability to work or be on call during various shifts including weekends and deep nights for critical cases on a 24x7 basis

2+ Years of product support experience or related work experience.

Ability to use debug skills and source code access to troubleshoot and isolate problems to a component level.

Maintain strong working knowledge of pre-release products and take ownership for product improvement in key product areas.

Technical Requirements:

Prior knowledge of Networking/.Net Development/C++ Development/Java Development/SharePoint is preferred.

Education:

Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience.

MCSE preferred. Will consider related field (or equivalent) experience.

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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