Senior Technical Support Engineer (Azure Networking
Full job description
Senior Technical Support Engineer (Azure Networking)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date posted
Jun 28, 2025
Job number
183+117
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
None
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Technical Support
Discipline
Technical Support Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.
Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.
In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will own, troubleshoot and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and deepen your technical proficiency.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% 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
5+ years technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience.
May be required to be available on-call during weekends and/or public holidays on a rotational basis.
Preferred Skills
Leadership - handle technically challenging and politically hot customer situations
Strong communications skills - excellent spoken and written English communication skills
Effective, polished interaction with customer to gather information
Demonstrable troubleshooting skills
Cross-team collaboration
Logical and critical thinking
Passion for technology and customer support
Understanding of cloud vs. on premise computing
Technical Skills
Strong knowledge and understanding of Networking basics: TCP/UDP concepts, common tools/commands (ping, tracert, nslookup, telnet) required for troubleshooting, IP addressing, subnetting, 3-way handshake, routing protocols, OSI model, routing, switching
Experience with Infrastructure, Network Administration
Expertise troubleshooting large Network Environments and familiarity with packet sniffers: Wireshark or Network Monitor, Message Analyzer
Fundamental awareness of Private, Hybrid, Public Cloud, OS : Windows and, or Linux, Virtualization of SDN technologies
Knowledge and understanding of VPN, IPsec, DHCP, DNS, HTTP/s, MPLS/BGP/Layer3/Layer2/Wireshark analysis
Hands-on experience of Proxy and Firewall
Knowledge of one of the following domains will be beneficial but not mandatory:
Windows Azure Platform
Knowledge of Windows Azure Platform services
Azure Platform development and deployment concepts
Familiarity with troubleshooting
Operating System/Virtualization
Familiarity with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts
Understanding of Virtualization concepts and virtual system administration
Experience with Hyper-V configuration and administration
Networking
Familiarity with networking concepts including VIPs, NAT, DNS
Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, wire shark, etc.)
Understanding of load balancing, geo-redundancy, CDN and VPN technologies preferred
Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of Australian citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local Australian government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
Security Clearance Requirements: 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
Response and Resolution: You own, investigate, and solve complex customer technical issues and act as an advisor to the customer, collaborating within and across teams and leveraging troubleshooting tools and practices.
Readiness: You lead in building communities with peer delivery roles and share your knowledge through readiness programs, technical coaching and mentoring of others.
You deepen your technical and professional proficiency to enable you to resolve complex customer issues, through training and readiness.
Product/Process Improvement: You engage with Microsoft Engineering/ Supportability teams to investigate potential product defects and help develop automation techniques and diagnostic tools driving Microsoft product improvements.
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, *** (including pregnancy), ****** 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.