Sr. Identity ACE Engineer

Do you want to be at the center of the three Microsoft cloud empowering customers and partners to secure their environments to realize the full value of Microsoft cloud services? Are you looking for a role where you can interact directly with customers and help them transform into cloud-enabled businesses? Do you want to contribute to one of Microsoft's fastest growing businesses? If so, then we are looking for you!
Azure Active Directory is responsible for managing users, authenticating, and securing access to Microsoft Cloud for millions of users every day. It enables organizations to protect their information while providing their employees the ability to be productive from any device from the location of their choice.
Within Identity Engineering team, the Identity Advanced Cloud Engineering (ACE) Team, is responsible for helping customers to achieve more by monitoring customer service health and providing outstanding support experience for the most complex problems encountered by Microsoft's top customers.
About the role...
As an Identity ACE Engineer in Advanced Cloud Engineering team, you will work with customers and Program Managers to deploy Identity and Access Management solutions, closely monitor customer health, and own the response to customer support requests in a 24x7x365 environment via phone, email or web, representing Microsoft and the Identity Engineering team. You will collaborate with subject matter experts within your team, across engineering teams, account teams, and management while continuing to maintain responsibility for being the first and last point of contact for your customer until issues are resolved. In this role you will develop deep technical expertise, have an opportunity to learn new emerging technologies, and help those around you grow. As you learn, you will apply an engineering approach to defining processes, analyze data, and work with engineering teams and leadership to continuously improve the customer experience.
We are looking for individuals sharing a passion for supporting customers, demonstrate empathy, a strong communicator, have a growth mindset, and a strong technical acumen to join one of the most customer connected engineering teams at Microsoft. The roles are technical, customer facing, have opportunity to grow professionally and technically.
An ideal candidate for this role has experience in deeply technical roles, support experience at cloud scale and leading complex and highly visible customer engagements. Along the way, you have managed situations where the stakes are high, learned how to negotiate, developed strong communication skills especially when sharing deeply technical information. You have obtained and leveraged data to make informed decisions and able to quickly learn new technologies.
#IdentityJobsResponsibilities

• Directly engage and support top Identity customers to resolve technically complex and critical technical issues in a 24x7x365 global support team.
• Go technically deep across multiple Identity and Access Management technologies as you actively seek solutions to customer needs.
• Leverage knowledge and experience to mentor, model customer engagement skills, and contribute to technical growth of a global team.
• Deeply engage with Product Managers, Account Managers, and your customers to understand their architecture, and operations as you improve their overall support experience.
• Champion and Advocate for your customers in representing their needs
• Define and implement proactive customer health monitoring leveraging service monitoring tools
• Adjust working hours according to business needs, including weekends, and participation in on-call rotations.
• Share support insights and recommendations with engineering, customers, and account teams to prevent repetition of similar issues. that eliminates reoccurring issues and transforms the customer experience.
• Collaborate with engineering on new feature design and testing to ensure customers have a great experience and prevent issues in the future.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in deep technical role in IT, Technical Support, Consulting, Program Management or similar roles and hand-on experience with Identity and Access Management technologies.
• 5+ years' experience directly engaging and managing customer relationships in consultative or account management oriented roles
• Demonstrated exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to adjust communication style based on the audience.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams and overcome obstacles by resolving issues regardless of team boundaries.
• Demonstrated passion for data driven decision making to help diagnose, resolve, and improve service offerings
• Strong problem-solving skills. Ability to look beyond the problem and contribute to design improvements
• English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking. If English is not native language, proficiency test results is a plus (e.g. TOEFL, TOEIC, Cambridge English Exams)

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Equivalent Experience.
  Multiple Certification in Microsoft and/or competing Cloud Technologies and/or Security is desired.
• Expertise in two or more of the following cloud computing technologies:
  
  • Azure Core Platform (Compute, Storage, Networking)
  • Data Platform: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory,
  • Experience with automation languages (PowerShell, etc.)
    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.
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