Support Engineer (Azure DB) - FRENCH

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Are you interested in the cloud business? Do you want to take Microsoft customers on the journey to success as they transition to cloud platforms and services?

In Support Engineering we're about helping customers realize their potential, from gamers to governments, mums to mega-corporations, we serve just about every kind of customer all over the globe. We are a community of engineers who have effective relationships with many amazing customers. In this role you will be curious and intuitive in your approach, with a passion for customer service. The role requires empathy, a passion for learning, excellent communication skills, the ability to think differently than the crowd, and a genuine desire to help people do their best. The role provides great scope for career development opportunities within Microsoft.

These roles provide technical support to enterprise customers, partners, internal staff and/or others on critical issues experienced with Microsoft technologies. A Support Engineer is responsible for providing quality support for our products with a high degree of customer happiness; providing responsive and reliable technical solutions and information to Microsoft customers.

Positively represent Microsoft and communicate with corporate customers via telephone, email, Skype in regard to finding solutions for technical problem identified in Microsoft products.

As a member of a team, pursue technical problems, involving broad and in-depth product knowledge by using collaboration and receiving mentoring assistance as needed. Frequently, these problems are politically charged situations as well, requiring the highest level of customer service.

Responsible for managing the relationship with these customers and thoroughly documenting their cases.

Participate in case triage meetings to share knowledge with other engineers and develop efficient customer solutions.

Consistently share best practices. Write technical articles and blogs for guiding other team members and customers.

Qualifications


Good Communication Skills - spoken and written English (including technical writing). Additional languages are a plus.
Excellent customer service skills and customer focused attitude.
Three or more years’ in-depth systems deployment, admin or technical support, software support or IT Consulting
Effective learning skills and the ability to learn on the go
Strong problem-solving skills, includes troubleshooting, problem analysis and resolution, good judgment/decision making ability.
Genuine passion for technology and desire and aptitude to increase technical skill level required.
Recent work experience in a customer facing support role
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Cultural sensitivity
Experience of building relationships with customers
Ability to build the trust of a community
Self-motivation and an ability to use initiative
Flexibility and ability to adapt to ambiguous and changing situations
We have Support Engineer roles in Azure DB.

Therefore, we are interested in people with skillsets in any of the below, we do not expect you to have everything, just the relevant skills for the team you are interested in:

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server either on-premises or Azure DB.
Experience with Relational Database management systems and concepts
Knowledge of Microsoft SQL ServerSQL 2016 at dev level (SQL language, Stored Procedures, etc.)
Experience with Hadoop or another Big Data/Analytics technology
Azure Core Platform (Compute/IaaS VM, azure Storage, Azure Networking)
Linux
French language skills

What to expect?

Work is office-based, but occasionally there is the need to travel to attend meetings.
Collaborating with colleagues across teams, time zones and technologies, working closely with brilliant Support engineers, product groups and progressive customers.
We work with a diverse range of customers; from small dev shops and independent software vendors (ISVs) to blue chip organisations.
Resolving customer technical problems
Opportunity for personal growth
This position may require you to work a rotational on-call and shift schedule

If you find this opportunity to be compelling, we would like to explore the possibilities with you.

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