3 Applications Support Consultant jobs in New Zealand

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 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.
**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.
**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications:**  
+ 5+ years in designing, implementing and supporting solutions in a complex enterprise environment. 
+ 5+ years technical background, enterprise experience, and knowledge in one or more of the technologies below:   
+ Identity Synchronization Technologies 
+ Authentication and Authorization Management 
+ Enterprise level protocols (Kerberos, PKI, Oauth, SAML, WS-Fed, etc)  
+ Identity Management 
+ Federation 
+ Security Management 
+ B2B, B2C 
+ Role based access control, Permissions management 
+ MFA 
English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking. If English is not native language, proficiency test results is a plus (e.g. TOEFL, TOEIC, Cambridge English Exams) 
Flexibility to adapt working hours according to business needs, including weekends and be part of on-call rotations. Though schedule changes are not frequent, you will need to have flexibility to accommodate changes as needed.  
**Preferred Qualifications:**   
+ 5+ years of experience in technology, support, training, consulting, architecting, development, network, data center operations, IT admin or operations or equivalent education in technologies below: 
+ Azure Active Directory 
+ Identity Synchronization Technologies (Dirsync, AAD Connect, FIM.etc) 
+ Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) - or similar 3rd party experience (Shibboleth, CA SiteMinder, Okta, PING etc) 
+ Identity and Access Management 
+ Office 365 Identity Management 
+ Cloud Domain Management 
+ Cloud User Management and configuration 
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.
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