Technical Support Engineering IC3
Microsoft
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 Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot, and solve customers’ technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and develop 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
- Reviews complex issues (e.g., involving multiple components of a product) and engages customers to understand the problem. Ensures customers are kept informed of status and resolution progress.
- Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to diagnose and resolve customer issues.
- Resolves customer issues through structured problem‑solving, collaboration, and research; may handle escalated cases as needed.
- Documents technical investigation, research, and resolution steps clearly and accurately.
- Performs in‑depth product troubleshooting and remediation when required.
- Collaborates across teams and products, working with resources from other groups to resolve moderately complex customer issues.
Readiness
- Assists with the implementation of end‑to‑end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, knowledge sharing, technical documentation, brown‑bag sessions, blogs, and quality assurance checks).
- Develops readiness content and supports knowledge transfer initiatives.
- Mentors new Technical Support Engineers and develops intermediate‑level competence across assigned support topics.
Product and Process Improvement
- Provides feedback to senior engineers or serviceability teams on product functionality based on customer engagements.
- Shares insights with product groups to support product improvements.
- Identifies potential defects and escalates them to senior engineers for resolution.
- Applies broad knowledge of automated tools across technologies and products; provides feedback for tool enhancement.
- Identifies process gaps and shares best practices to help streamline workflows.
- Participates in case triage meetings and technical discussions to accelerate customer resolution and knowledge sharing.
- Leverages learnings from triage sessions to identify and communicate readiness needs to management or readiness teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or a related field and 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting, or IT experience
- OR 5+ years of technical support, technical consulting, or information technology experience
- Business‑level fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking)
- Experience troubleshooting Windows Server and networking technologies, including:
- CMD / PowerShell
- Network tracing and analysis
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- DHCP
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft technology certifications
- Fluency in Portuguese (reading, writing, and speaking)
- Experience with Windows system administration and configuration
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is desirable:
- Software‑Defined Networking
- IPSec
- Docker / container networking
- Kernel logging analysis
- NFS
- Windows Firewall
- Proxy
- VPN
- SMB & File Sharing
- 802.1X
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.
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.