Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Security 

Costa Rica, San José 

336735659

Minimum requirements

• 7+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.
• 5+ years of security experience.
• Knowledge in one of the following: C#, C++ or JavaScript.
• Experience supporting at least one of the following security technologies:
  • Sentinel
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Microsoft Defender
  • CoPilot/Security CoPilot
• Business level fluency to read, write and speak English

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of security on premise and Azure.
• Understanding/experience with Azure concepts
  • Azure AD
  • Azure Networking
  • VMs
• SC900 security certification

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 highly complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., debugging) to help resolve customer issues. Supports the business both locally and globally to drive business. Serves as a technical escalation point.
• Resolves highly complex cases and by working on the end-to-end on case resolution. Serves as an escalation point for other engineers to assist in resolving cases. May have to work with product group or engineering team.
• Performs complex product troubleshooting and remediation when needed. Works alongside the development teams to drive incident resolution for configuration, code, or other service deficiencies impacting customers. Analyzes patterns of problems and identifies workflows to optimize support engineering delivery for a team or region level.
• Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve complex customer issues.

Readiness

• Assists in the development of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks, writes technical articles) for new and existing technology.

Product/Process Improvement

• Acts as a trusted advisor to the product group, in a designated discipline or technology, to influence, improve, or propose fixes.
• Contributes to product improvements by filing bugs and design change requests, and recommends potential fixes to validate resolution prior to shipping to customer or production in order to prevent customers from being impacted.
• Reviews diagnostic processes and collaborates to design complete systems that simplify tools automation and eliminate systematic diagnostic issues. Builds automation tools.
• Makes improvements based on feedback provided. Translates feedback and creates processes and workflows for case resolution.
• Leads case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and develop customer solutions. Takes learnings from triage meetings to communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.

Business Integration

• Uses business integration knowledge to influence strategy when engaging with customers, partners, and teams.

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