Technical Support Engineer - Windows

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.

•    Response and Resolution: You own, investigate and solve customer technical issues. You collaborate within and across teams, leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
•    Readiness: You lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles and, where appropriate, share your knowledge. 
•    You develop specific technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve customer issues, through training and readiness.
•    Product/Process Improvement: You identify potential product defects and escalate appropriately to resolve, contributing to Microsoft product improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must have working experience and advanced knowledge in configuring, administrating and troubleshooting of Microsoft® Windows Products including, Windows Server 2008/R2/Windows 7, Windows Server 2012/R2/Win8/Win8.1, Windows 10/Server 2016/Server 2019.
• Industry experience in deploying, configuring, administrating and troubleshooting Windows Operating Systems.
• Troubleshooting tools and log review.

• Knowledge of Datacenter technologies (Administration of Operating Systems, Virtualization, Storage, Backup, Failover Clustering, Update Services).

Experience with any of the following technologies:

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.
• Installing and troubleshooting Windows Update and WSUS.
• Windows Activation and Licensing.
• Bitlocker Administration and Management.
• Windows Installation and Setup Issues (In Place Upgrade).
• Devices and Driver Installation issues on Windows.

• Knowledge of Windows debugging would be a plus.

Language Qualification:

English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking. OR
Fluency in any other language like German, French, and/or Italian - confident in reading, writing and speaking would be a plus.

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.