Leads technical escalations and high-severity security incidents for enterprise customers, diagnosing complex environments and coordinating engineering responses, customer advocacy, and service improvements.
About this role
Within Microsoft Customer Service & Support, this Technical Support Engineer joins the Active Directory Services team, supporting enterprise identity and security foundations. The role covers Active Directory, authentication, Group Policy, PKI, and hybrid identity.
The engineer owns complex customer issues, using logs, events, network traces, configuration data, and protocol specifications to form hypotheses, reproduce failures, analyze protocols, and recommend fixes. PowerShell and automation improve diagnosis; AI tools support knowledge search, log analysis, scripting, and case summaries, with outputs checked against primary evidence.
Applicants need practical experience in support, systems, software, or infrastructure engineering; basic understanding of operating systems, networks, authentication, directory services, security, storage, or applications; and experience in design, deployment, operations, development, migration, or troubleshooting. Business-level Japanese reading, writing, and speaking, plus ability to research English technical documentation, are required.
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