Advanced Cloud Engineer II – Gov Focus

The Azure Customer Experience (CXP) team believes that when we meet our high standards for quality and reliability, our customers win. If we falter, our customers fail their end-customers. Our vision is to turn Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. 

We are the ACES Strategic team (Advanced Cloud Engineering & Supportability), a global engineering team in Azure CXP and we are focused on Strategic Azure Customers. We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers. We orchestrate and drive deep engagements in areas like Incident Management, Problem Management, Support, Resiliency, and empowering the customers. We represent the customer and amplify customer voice with Azure Engineering connecting to the quality vision for Azure. We innovate and find ways to scale our learning across our customer base.  

Are you constantly customer-obsessed and passionate about solving complex technical problems? Do you take pride in enhancing customer experience through innovation? If the answer is Yes, then join us and surround yourself with people who are passionate about cloud computing and believe that extraordinary support is critical to customer success. 

As a customer focused Advanced Cloud Engineer II, you are the primary engineering contact accountable for your customer’s support experience on Azure. You will drive resolution of critical and complex problems, support key customer projects on Azure and be the voice of the customer within Azure. In this role, you will work in partnership with Customer Success Account Managers, Cloud Solution Architects, Technical Support Engineers, and Azure engineering with our mission to turn Azure customers into fans with world-class engineering-led support experience. 

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

Technical Expertise 

• With minimal oversight, track customer incidents, engage with strategic customers and partners to understand issues, contribute to troubleshooting through diagnostics, communicate progress and next steps to customers with a focus on reducing time taken to mitigate critical incidents. 

• Use engineering and support tools, customer telemetry and/or direct customer input to detect and flag issues in the products or with the customer usage of the products. Help customers stay current with best practices by sharing content. 

• Identify and