Microsoft Technical Support Engineer 

Costa Rica, San José 

999785262

Minimum requirements

• 3+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Architecture - Fundamentals of Fabric, Compute, Storage 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)
• Availability to work on weekends as needed
• Business level fluency to read, write and speak English

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments: BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.
• Experience with Linux, OSS
• 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
• Familiarity with SAN, NAS, Hyper-V, VMWare, iSCSI
• Working knowledge of troubleshooting tools including Sysinternals, Fiddler, Netmon, NetStat, Tracert etc.
• Familiarity with networking concepts including TCP, IP, NAT, DNS
• Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration

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.

Response and Resolution

• Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.
• Resolves customer issues through problem solving, collaboration, and research. May take escalated issues as needed. Documents technical work and research.
• Performs in-depth product troubleshooting and remediation when needed.
• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve moderately complex customer issues.

Readiness

• Assists in the implementation of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, knowledge sharing or technical document creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks). Develops readiness content. Mentors new Technical Support Engineers. Develops intermediate level competence on support topics.

Product/Process Improvement

• Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement.
• Identifies potential defects and escalates to more senior engineers to resolve.
• Applies broad knowledge of automated tools being used across other technologies and products. Provides feedback for tool improvement.
• Identifies and provides feedback to address process gaps in an effort to streamline processes and shares best practices broadly.
• Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.

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