Customer Experience & Success
• Do you want to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more?
• Do you want to work in an open and inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated?
• If you love talking to and learning from customers and are excited about working with brilliant technical minds, we want to talk to you.
In Customer Experience & Success, we are focused on how we can Empower, Help, and Advise Microsoft customers. We engage in solving complex problems for customers, we collaborate and knowledge share with each other, and we innovate on solutions to enable our customers to make the most of Microsoft products.
Our team is geographically distributed, we speak many languages and we come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. We are rapidly expanding, and we are looking for talented people with a passion for solving complex issues and an obsession for customer happiness.
Our culture is built around attributes that drive our every decision and our every action:
• Customer Obsession - we exist for and because of the customer. We need people who share that passion and drive to make our customers experiences easy, insightful and trusted.
• Growth Mindset - we value all perspectives and reward individuals that poke at the edges of what they know to be true. We are seeking people that think differently and are biased toward action to accomplish great things.
• Diverse & Inclusive - we enable people who bring a contemporary view to shape our internal teams and encourage all to feel included.
• One Microsoft - we collaborate and value the work of others, combining their learnings with our own to make a better outcome for our customers.
• Making a difference - we drive impact by looking for ways to continually improve our day to day responsibilities and the connections between our work and others.
A Partner Technical Advisor (PTA) is a service delivery focused subject matter expert. You will be adding value by collaboratively help solve customer problems, by providing proactive support advice, contributing to product quality and enhancements, by organizing or delivering readiness activities to develop engineers and by creating self-help assets to broadly reach more customers. You will be responsible for incident metrics such as Customer Satisfaction (quality of the support experience), frontline engineer technical readiness and process compliance. As a PTA you will provide in-depth technical & subject matter expertise for one or more services or scenarios. Your primary accountability is to the engineers at a support vendor (also known as a supplier or delivery partner), focusing on the higher volume services and engaging through technical & SME mentorship, readiness and escalation management . You will contribute to technical expertise and issue resolution globally.
**Responsibilities**
Core (all people in this role perform these duties; depending on tenure some duties may be minimal
• Provide technical & SME coaching for Delivery Partner (DP) Engineers/Advocates
• Provide skill-gap analysis & readiness plans for Delivery Partner (DP) teams
• Case management duties (incoming inspection, escalations, tech reviews/triage, wellness, reduced Time To... measures)
• Readiness Content (identify need for and create content; contribute to readiness efforts where you are the SME)
• Manage collaboration activities (reactive, proactive, cross-team for complex cases, overall process)
• Contribute to Supportability activities (case analysis and case pattern recognition, deflection initiatives, and other Supportability improvements working w/SPM, Service TA, PG)
• Release Management and Deployment for DP (ensure it happens, do not own directly)
• Focus on the quality of engagement, working with the DP Quality team
Optional (people in this role may perform these duties, can vary by line of business)
• Provide Frontline Operations Metrics Oversight
• Participate in DP ROB (WBR/QBR/MBR)
• Participate in Product Group Triages (coordinated with Eng. and Service TAs)
• Approval of escalations to product group on behalf of DP (known as ICMs, Bugs or similar – varies by SBU) Drive Down Speed or Time to Competency for DP Resources
• Participate in Technical & SME Interviews for New PTA Hires
• Direct Customer Contact (to support frontline engineers, periodic case ownership to maintain technical expertise)
• Run Non-Top Box and Deviation Analysis (including Approval)
• Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles (SEE/EE/EEE/TA); may be workload or specialty specific.
**Qualifications**
Required
+ Microsoft Azure Architecture - Fundamentals of Fabric, Compute, VM Mgmt, etc.
+ Conceptual knowledge of Azure IaaS deployments and administration
+ Familiarity with OS Internals concepts, built-in diagnostics, Active Directory and Security (Windows and or Linux)
+ Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration
+ Familiarity with SAN/NAS, Hyper-V/VMWare, iSCSI
+ Familiarity with networking concepts including TCP/IP, NAT, DNS
+ Working knowledge of troubleshooting tools including Sysinternals, Fiddler, Netmon, NetStat, Tracert etc
**Experience in one or more of these areas desirable**
+ VM Mgmt (preferred)
+ Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.)
+ Experience administering Linux (boot process, file systems, network device and protocol configuration)
+ Familiarity with core OS services such as: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba, LDAP
+ At least 3 years of experience working on Azure VM technology (Mgmt knowledge is a bonus)
+ At least 3 years of experience in a customer facing or customer support role with troubleshooting and problem-solving experience in a team environment
+ At least 3 years of experience with systems administration, network administration, IT administration, systems development, network operations, software support, IT consulting or related.
**Other skills preferred**
+ At least 2 years of experience managing or mentoring individual contributors
+ Experience - Technical proficiency in and learning attitude toward Azure technologies; previous experience as a member of one of the Azure Technical Support Pods
+ Proven ability to lead people to achieve success
+ Familiarity with Azure and/or compete cloud products
+ Strong customer service, communication, problem-solving and interpersonal skills
+ Problem-solving skills
+ Self-motivation and an ability to use initiative
+ Self-motivated and directed.
+ Proven ability to lead people to achieve success.
+ Capacity to deal with difficult customers and ability to thrive in ambiguity
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent’s experience.
Language
Proficiency in the English language, written and spoken (including technical writing)
This position may require you to work a rotational On-Call schedule, evenings and weekends shifts. Please note that shifts might change according to business needs.
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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .
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