Microsoft Corporation Hiring for Customer Engineer for Startups (FastTrack) at Other, India Full Time

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting products in Microsoft, passionate about exceeding customer expectations and advancing Microsoft’s cloud first strategy? Are you excited about being part of an engineering team working with start-ups to ensure success as they move forward with cloud computing? If so, then look no further than the FastTrack for Azure Team!

The FastTrack for Azure team is a fast-growing team of customer-facing Microsoft Azure Engineers who help customers, ISVs, and startups develop and deploy solutions to Azure.

We are looking for Senior Customer Engineers to work with startups in India as they journey toward POC, Dev, and Azure Production deployment. If you want to have broad impact, be a technical leader, and truly help startups realize the value of their Azure investment – this is the role for you!

Responsibilities

As a Customer Engineer you will directly engage with startups to translate their business requirements into secure, scalable and reliable solutions. You’ll work across a range of scenarios including new cloud-native apps, single-tenant apps transforming into a multi-tenancy, and apps migrating from on premises or competitive clouds.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Conduct Architectural Design Review sessions and workshops to advise startups on design, development and deployment

• Translate business goals into technical needs with knowledge of ISV, startup and subscription-based business models

• Partner with various Azure Engineering domain experts to scope and build modules, tools and proof of concepts

• Validate new solutions and proofs of concept; update modules per findings and feedback

• Interact daily with other FTA Engineers to provide technical action plans or take ownership of escalations

• Maintain knowledge of the latest on Azure and Microsoft Cloud innovations to conduct experiments, drive product improvement

• Share knowledge through solution documents, technical communities, self-help solutions and training

Qualifications

A successful candidate will draw from many of the following desired skills:

• 2-3+ years working on Azure specific solutions and infrastructure, including experience in two or more of the core Azure development technologies (Modern Framework/Stack Development, Modern Cloud Architecture, Methodologies & Tooling, or Data Access Technologies)

• Experience and knowledge of cloud development and deployment tools (PowerShell, Visual Studio, .NET, AzureCLI)

• Consulting and/or Delivery experience

• Real day-to-day startup or ISV customer-facing experience and empathy

• Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to handle sensitive situations involving critical and politically charged partner situations, to lead projects and to motivate others

• An analytical mindset, with a systemic approach to measuring success

• Results driven and adaptable; thrives in a fast-paced ambiguous environment

• Interest in contributing to a diverse and inclusive team; demonstrated ability to have fun

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We are looking forward to meeting you. 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 you to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check every two years

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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