Technical Support Engineer - Defender for Endpoint

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:

• Hands on working experience in customer facing technical support or technical consulting role.
• Experience in Network Security Engineering or consulting, and, or Systems Administration with focus on security.
• Experience with endpoint security, server security, or threat analytics.
• Experience on Windows Server, Windows Client, Active Directory and, or Azure Active Directory Administration.
• Experience with deploying, administering, and/or supporting Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) endpoint security solutions.
• Enterprise cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security, networking, and migration of multi-cloud or hybrid deployments.
• Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments with 1000+ users.

Experience in one or more of these areas desirable:

• Experience with Linux or Mac administration.
• Scripting and automation (PowerShell or Python, Java, or a similar language, can be a beginner to intermediate level).

Language Qualification:

English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

Optional proficiency in other language (i.e. French/Spanish/Italian etc.) will be an added advantage.

Additional Notes:

We highly value experience with Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, System Center Endpoint Protection, Azure Antimalware, Windows Defender, and Advanced Threat Protection.

Moreover, essential customer skills for success in this role include empathy, accountability, customer focus, creative problem-solving, a troubleshooting mindset, and resourcefulness.

Working Days/Hours: This role requires the engineer to work Monday through Friday, with flexible working hours if needed.

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.

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.