Support Engineer - HPC & AI

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of Microsoft’s end-to-end customer experience. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers come to us not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, but also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience.

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 help customers and partners resolve their issues quickly, prevent future problems from occurring, and demonstrate new ways to achieve more from their Microsoft investment.

Applications & Infrastructure - the largest and fastest growing group in CSS - provides Microsoft’s commercial customers with timely technical expertise to address their business-critical challenges and partners with them to advance global, cross-cloud solutions that enable their people and empower the world.

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) team we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As a Technical Support Engineer you will own, troubleshoot and solve complex customer technical issues. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth by honing your problem-solving, collaboration and research skills, and developing 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 Skills: Hands-On technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT).

• Hands-On experience managing, or supporting HPC clusters on-premises or in the cloud.

• Familiarity with one, or more, HPC schedulers like Slurm, LSF, PBS etc.

• Experience administering Linux (boot process, file systems, network device, and protocol configuration).

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with MPI libraries and programming.

• Experience in GPU processing and programming preferrable. • Working knowledge of one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.).

• In-depth knowledge of InfiniBand and TCP/IP networking and related protocols.

• Understanding of HPC Applications installation and support.

• Familiarity with HPC Pack.

Language Qualification:

English Language: confident in reading, writing and speaking.

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 relating to HPC and act as a 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 HPC related 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

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.

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