Senior Azure Advanced Cloud Engineer

Technically Oriented 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 trends/patterns of issues in the products or products misuse across customers. Develop and share insights and best practices with customers. Recommend and help develop training/readiness modules (e.g., mentoring, leading triages, content creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks). Acts as a mentor, shares knowledge, and contributes to the content and readiness strategy for

the team. Customer Solution Lifecycle Management Serve as a connecting point between the product team and customers throughout the engagement lifecycle, engage with customers to understand their business and availability needs, develop and offer proactive guidance on designing configurations and deploying solutions on Azure. Handle complex escalations on customer issues from the customer or support or field teams, conduct impact analysis, help customers with answers to their technical questions, and serve as an escalation resource in areas of subject matter expertise. Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of issues and translates findings into opportunities for improvement and track and drive them as repair items. Act as voice of customers and synthesize product feedback from strategic customers to provide input on business plans developed by the product groups. Identify customer usage patterns and drive resolutions on reoccurring issues with product groups. Close the feedback loop with the customers on product features. Partner with other teams (e.g., program managers, software engineers, product, customer service support teams), prioritize, unblock, and resolve critical customer issues. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions to strategic customers and develop mechanisms that improve customer health and reduce the turnover time. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND 4+ years experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of demonstrated experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications and infrastructure resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations. Hands-on expertise in two or more Azure or equivalent technology areas, such as Compute, Storage, Networking, Kubernetes, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, App Service, Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and other Azure services. 2+ years of customer-facing experience, with demonstrated ability to prioritize, advocate for, and communicate customer needs to stakeholders. 2+ years of Experience with being on-call and driving mitigation for mission critical incidents. Strong communication and customer-engagement skills, including the ability to build trust, communicate complex technical issues to varied audiences, and lead recurring customer business reviews.