Technical Support Engineer
Microsoft
Technical Support Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Overview
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 customer 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.
This role is Microsoft onsite only.
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.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.
Other requirements: 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 Technology Certifications.
- Networking (network trace analysis, troubleshooting name resolution, virtual networks, firewall configuration)
- Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Azure HDInsight, Azure Databricks
- Azure Cosmos DB, NoSQL Services, MongoDB
- Data Lake
- Cloud Streaming technologies
- Open Source Ecosystem (Linux, Apache, etc.)
- Developer Experience: Python, Scala, R
- Big Data or Analytics Products and Services
- Identity
- Azure DevOps
- Power BI / SQL Server Analysis Services
- Data Modeling
- Experience with one or more customer support, product support, technical support, IT Admin support, Consulting, systems development, product development, network operations, software engineering, or I.T. consulting, customer or technical support or consulting or end-user support
- Adaptability, flexibility and the ability to do the right thing under pressure and tight deadlines
- Interpersonal and communication skills-both oral and written-and success in partnering with groups inside and outside of Microsoft
- Self-motivated and independent thinker that routinely translates circumstances and understanding into actions that move the business forward in a measurable manner
- Ability to distill, prioritize and act on feedback from a variety of sources
- 2+ years of customer support or call center experience, preferably in technical support environments
- 2+ years of experience with programming languages:C#, Python, Java, Node.js
- Hands-on experience with Azure services and enterprise Windows technologies, including:
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure CLI
- Azure PowerShell scripting
- Troubleshooting abilities:
- Diagnose complex, distributed system issues involving performance, scaling, or connectivity
- Analyze logs, error traces, and metrics to identify root causes
- Reproduce issues in lab/test environments and validate solutions
- Work effectively with debugging and monitoring tools in Azure
Technical Support Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $69,600 - CAD $130,900 per year.
Find additional pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for this role until November 6th, 2025
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Responsibilities
• Response and Resolution: You own, investigate and solve customer technical issues, collaborating within and across teams and 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.