Cloud Solution Architecture

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

Do you have a passion for Azure PaaS and using best-in-class tools created by Microsoft? Are you looking for a role where you can interact directly with large enterprise customers to improve the stability and performance of the solutions they are deploying in Azure? Do you want to join one of Microsoft's fastest growing businesses? If so, we are looking for you

Support for Mission Critical is a team within Microsoft that provides solution-specific expertise designed to drive peak health and optimum performance of a customer’s most important solutions. As a key technical resource for the customer, you will be primarily focused on delivering proactive services such as education workshops, delivering assessments, and providing tailored guidance. Troubleshooting skills are essential as this role will include working with Microsoft Support to expedite incident resolution.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.

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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Planning and delivering proactive and reactive support including onsite presence as needed (post Covid restrictions)
- You will work with a larger customer account team to strengthen customer relationships and to work on mobile-first cloud-first strategies that allow you to develop an immediate and long-term Customer Success Plan and Value Based Delivery for reactive and proactive needs.
- You will Identify and manage customer goals and SfMC opportunities across Azure PaaS to improve the quality, consumption, and health of the customer’s messaging solution.
- You will drive and participate in proactive delivery management as well as spot performance issues, analyze problems, and drive activities focused on stabilizing and optimizing your customer’s solution.
- You will work with internal Microsoft support teams, account teams, product engineering and service engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure a streamlined and efficient customer support experience.
- You will engage in meetings with your customers and account teams to review Support for Mission Critical services, customer support issues, and articulate your Customer Success Plans.
- You will share and gain knowledge through technical communities.
- You will contribute to on-call rotations to ensure a high quality of service for the critical incidents created by Support for Mission Critical customers.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, Typescript, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years experience with architecting and building large-scale complex enterprise services on cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
- 3+ years of Azure PaaS related experience. Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of the following Azure PaaS areas is expected
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Azure API Management
- Azure App Service
- Azure Function

**Application Development**
- Experience in designing, implementing, and shipping complex enterprise software products/services
- Hands-on ability to write secure, reliable, and maintainable code and to test and debug it
- Familiar with cloud design patterns
- Strong knowledge in.NET Framework,.NET Core, C#
- Strong knowledge in DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong knowledge of containerization principles and experience with technology like Docker and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in utilizing GitHub and/or Azure DevOps Service for DevOps workflows
- Strong knowledge of RESTful web services technologies like JSON, WebAPI, and Odata
- Ability to operate and be successful in a highly ambiguous, rapidly evolving environment

**Other Qualifications**
- Experience in systems management, network operations, software support, IT consulting, or related roles.
- Solid understanding of client/server, networking, and Internet technologies fundamentals.
- Must have outstanding customer service skills with excellent oral and written communication skills as well as experience providing training to peers or customers.
- Must demonstrate strong interpersonal and leadership skil