Technical Support Engineer - Cybersecurity - Cloud Protection
Microsoft
San José, Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Full-Time
Posted Aug 10, 2025
Up to 100% work from home
Compensation
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About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Resolves customer issues through problem solving, collaboration, and research
- May take escalated issues as needed
- Documents technical work and research
- Reviews complex issues and contacts customers to understand issue
- Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue
- Utilizes troubleshooting tools to help resolve customer issues
- Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues
- Assists in the implementation of end-to-end readiness programs
- Develops readiness content
- Mentors new Technical Support Engineers
- Identifies and provides feedback to address process gaps
- Applies broad knowledge of automated tools
- Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team
- Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or related field AND 1+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
- OR 3+ years of technical support, technical consulting experience, or information technology experience
- English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking
- CyberDefender Mindset: A CyberDefender Mindset is a proactive, collaborative, and customer-centric approach adopted by technical support teams
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements
- Additional or Preferred Qualifications: CISSP, Comptia Security +, ISC2 CC, BTL1/2, GSIF/GCIC/GCED/GSEC, PSAA, Kepner-Tregoe or equivalent certification
- Customer Service Foundations (LinkedIn Learning) or other Customer Service Training/Experience
- Ability to effectively communicate with customer managers and executives on technical and business issues
- Organization, time management, project management, and negotiation skills
- 3+ years of experience providing support for enterprise level premier customers
- Background/experience in security engineering (blue/red team) preferred
- Background in system/network engineering, DevOps/SRE or software engineering, with a passion for cybersecurity
- Previous experience with / exposure to Microsoft Sentinel or the Microsoft Defender suite
- Good understanding of the TCP/IP stack, working in a cloud environment and (at a minimum) basic system administration in Linux and/or Windows Server environments
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work
- 401k matching
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Discounts on products and services
- Educational resources
- Industry leading healthcare
- Opportunities to network and connect
About the Company
Microsoft is committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Job Details
Salary Range
Salary not disclosed
Location
San José, Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Employment Type
Full-Time
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