Support Engineer – AKS

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

The successful candidate should demonstrate great accountability, customer obsession and technical leadership. Beyond troubleshooting complex technical problems and managing critical situations, the candidate should be passionate of driving bigger impact: managing customer relationships, increasing customer value and their experience with our products and services.

This role will require the successful candidate to work, Tuesday – Saturday.

Responsibilities

Your Responsibilities

• Responsible for the customer support experience with Microsoft
• Own, troubleshoot and solve customer technical issues, using collaboration, troubleshooting best practices and transparency within and across teams (e.g. swarming)
• Identify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically)
• Create and maintain incident management requests to product group/engineering group
• Contribute to case deflection initiatives, automation and other digital self-help assets to improve customer/ engineer experience
• Provide ramp activities, knowledge sharing, technical coaching and mentoring
• Drive technical collaboration & engagement outside of CSS (Product Engineering teams/Services/Support/Regions)
• Lead or participate in building communities with peer delivery roles; may be workload or specialty specific

Qualifications

Language Qualification

English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking.

German or French highly appreciated

Required

• Knowledge in Linux / OSS Administration
• Knowledge of container technology and fluency in Kubernetes

Linux / OSS

Good To Have

• Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.)
• Experience with Linux script-based development environments and tools (PERL, Python, Ruby, PhP, etc.)
• Experience in Core Linux administration (boot process, file systems, network device and protocol configuration)
• Familiarity of Docker/Container/AKS
• Expertise in managing cluster environment (SUSE, RedHat, Veritas)
• Familiarity with core OS services such as: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba, LDAP

Experience in one or more of these areas desirable

Operating System/Virtualization

• Knowledge of LDAP, Security and OS Internals concepts
• Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration (Hyper-V, VMWare, Xen configuration and administration)

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form.

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