Job Description

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting products in Microsoft, driven to exceed customer expectations and advancing Microsofts cloud first strategy? Are you interested in a supportive environment, passionate about cloud computing technology and driving growth in one of Microsofts core businesses? If so, then look no further than the Azure Customer Experience Team! Microsoft Azure provides customers with on-demand and infinitely scalable infrastructure and platform for customers to build, host, and scale service applications on the Internet through Microsofts global data centers.FastTrack for Azure (FTA) helps customers onboard Azure, getting them on track to build it right, architect it right, the first time. We aim to engage and learn from the customer experience to drive positive change in our platform.Our team is looking for you, an Engineer, that brings great teamwork, positive attitude, leadership, and engineering excellence to our customer-focus team chartered with enabling a world-class experience for Microsoft Azure cloud platform customers.Responsibilities:As a customer engineer, you will primarily be working with customers, providing thoughtful guidance & sharing best practices to ensure a quality, reliable, scalable, secured and cost optimised deployment of their applications on Microsoft Azure. Some of the key responsibilities will include:

• Directly engage with customers and partners to validate migration new and existing Solutions for migration solutions; accelerate the customers project, provide knowledge and insight to build the customers confidence
• Drive product improvement by capturing product related feedback that can be triaged by the relevant Product teams.
• Lead & help support and develop junior team members.
• Provide local market insights and help grow the impact of the team.

Qualifications:Skills listed below can help in being successful in this role, we dont expect you to have all of them and we seek individuals who are excited about this role and love to learn whats required.

• Real day-to-day external customer-facing experience and empathy
• Keen ability to communicate ideas effectively with engineers and engineering teams
• Proven skills and abilities to consistently create an amazingly positive experience for customers
• Track record of constant learning
• A strong team player
• A bias for action

Technical Experience

• An understanding of Azure fundamentals, such as Governance, Security & Monitoring.
• Practical hands on experience in Migrating applications from on-prem to Azure PaaS offerings.
• Azure architecture skills.
• Experience with and ability to lead customers with two or more of the following:

• Azure AI
• Application modernisation using Azure technologies such as (App Service, Storage, ASE, CDN)
• Containers on Azure (AKS, ACS)
• Integration using Azure Integration services (APIM, Functions, Service Bus, Logic Aps, Event Grid etc)
• Application Security on Azure (WAF, FrontDoor, Private Networking, Sentinel)
• OSS on Azure

Customer Facing Experience

• Experience working with enterprise customers on Azure specific application development and deployment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with corporate customers, possess an understanding of the onboarding process and demonstrate a vision for the future of Microsoft support.
• Excellent customer service skills, good oral and written communication skills, proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations; to lead projects and to motivate others.
• Consulting and/or Delivery experience
• Understanding of Customer Experience as a discipline

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. 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 .#AzCXP

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