Senior Customer Experience Engineer

Senior Customer Experience Engineer - HPC
Dublin, Ireland
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Date posted
Aug 15, 2025
Job number
1857525
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Profession
Program Management
Customer Experience Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Every minute of every day, customers stake their entire business and reputation on Microsoft Cloud.
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 arethe 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.
Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are, how we work, and what we enable our customers to achieve.
We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically, work in ways that are best for them, and achieve their career goals.
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 thatextraordinary support is critical to customer success.
As a customer focused Advanced Cloud Engineer, you are theprimary 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.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), Data Analytics/Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or related field AND relevant experience in technology industry, cloud, technical support, and/or customer experience engineering OR equivalent experience.

•Demonstrated experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications and infrastructure resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations.

• Experience with being on-call and driving mitigation for mission critical incidents.

• Relevant experience with High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical Skills: Demonstratedhands-on experience with Subject Matter Expert level expertise in one or moreof the following Cloud technologies:
o Core IaaS: Compute (Windows/Linux), Storage, Networking, Kubernetes, High Availability
o Data Platform and Bigdata: Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL on Azure, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Factory, AI/ML
o Azure PaaS Services: App Services, Azure Functions, Redis Cache, and Event Hub.
o Monitoring technologies: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Grafana, Datadog, Confluent and similar technologies.

• Communication skills: ability to empathize with customers and convey confidence.
Able to explain highly technical issues to varied audiences.
Able to prioritize and advocate customer's needs to the proper channels.
Take ownership and work towards a resolution.

• Customer Obsession: Passion for customers and focus on delivering the right customer experience.

• Growth Mindset: Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.
The 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 to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Responsibilities
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.
Relationship/Experience Management

• 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.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations .
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