PREMIER FIELD ENGINEER - Exchange Server
Primary responsibilities include providing on-site technical support solutions for customer service delivery and availability, while ensuring satisfaction with Microsoft software on the exchange client and server. The successful candidate will be capable of providing field technical support presence for groups in the Microsoft Services organization, including but not limited to Premier and Professional Support, Microsoft Consulting Services, and escalation engineers. The Premier Field Engineer acts as the primary onsite technical contact, providing customer visibility, advanced technical troubleshooting support and problem resolution for Product Support Services and corporate customers, including issues escalated to the highest levels of management.
The candidate will provide technical support including product technical training onsite, as well as via telephone, and electronic media. Candidate must be able to manage hot issues by setting customer expectations, devising and implementing action plans, being available 24x7 and professionally communicating to all parties involved.
Recommended qualifications include: Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills at the System Engineer level; exceptional customer service, overall communication and technical writing skills. Must have sufficient technical depth to communicate with development and other internal organizations at a peer level; Must possess the ability to work independently with minimal management supervision and as part of nationwide team of engineers; Demonstrated aptitude for providing exceptional customer service in politically charged environments; Ability to enhance the technical expertise of peers via the development of product training, mentoring of new hires, and team content development; Ability to apply technology to improve existing products and systems at customers and for internal use; Ability to actively participate in team support by proposing and implementing solutions; Assist in developing strategies to gain additional Premier support accounts by contacting and establishing relationships with Premier Support Managers and Technical Account Managers.
Technical Requirements: Must possess superior knowledge and has demonstrated technical proficiency in Microsoft Exchange. Office 365/BPOS experience is a plus. Areas of knowledge and proficiency should include, but are not limited to, routing/transport, storage capacity planning, design/architecture and performance troubleshooting (Microsoft Exchange perspective), clustered deployments, disaster recovery, migration, mobile messaging, and topology design with troubleshooting of these areas at the expert level within large network environments. Candidate must have solid understanding of client/server, networking, other Messaging applications (IIS, Outlook, Outlook Express, IE, ActiveSync/Windows Mobile Client technology) and Internet technologies fundamentals (I.E. certificates, SSL, VPN, UCE...etc). In addition, the successful candidate must possess excellent knowledge of TCP/IP, SMTP, RPC and other protocols including use of troubleshooting tools - scripting, resource kit diagnostic tools, packet sniffers and\or Netmon.
Secondary expertise in more than one of the following products: Windows desktop Operating Systems, Windows server Operating Systems, Active Directory (architecture, design, disaster recovery and troubleshooting), Microsoft Exchange High Availability Technologies and Deployment scenarios, SQL, IIS, ISA.
Overnight travel is required. Travel requirements vary regionally and could be as much as 40-70%. Candidates must possess current passport or be able to obtain passport within 90 days of hire.
They must be available for travel dispatch 24x7x365. The candidate should already have current US work authorization, live within US and be willing to relocate. Remote candidates will not be considered.
Education: College degree, preferably in Computer Science, is required. MCSE strongly preferred. Will consider related field (or equivalent) experience.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.
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