Technical Support Engineering Director - Cybersecurity

Microsoft Corporation; Reading; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Technical Support Engineering Director, where you'll lead teams in delivering exceptional cybersecurity support. This role offers the flexibility to work from home while managing a diverse team dedicated to resolving complex technical challenges. Your leadership will empower the team to enhance customer experiences and drive product improvements. With a commitment to innovation and collaboration, this position is perfect for those passionate about making a difference in the tech industry. Embrace this opportunity to thrive in a culture that values respect, integrity, and accountability.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in technical support operations and management.
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on accountability and team retention.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to solve complex technical issues and drive accountability.
• Act as an escalation point for politically charged customer issues.
• Drive product quality improvements through customer feedback.

Skills

Operational Excellence

Delivery Management

Account Management

Sales Management

Vendor Management

Cybersecurity Knowledge

Leadership

Problem Solving

Job description

Technical Support Engineering Director - Cybersecurity

Lisbon, Portugal

Date posted: Mar 07, 2025

Job number: 1811911

Work site: Up to 100% work from home

Travel: 0-25 %

Role type: People Manager

Profession: Technical Support

Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

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 Threat Protection technologies helps businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment. In SCIM Security and Compliance, we actively work to secure every digital experience of our customers through industry-leading customer support.

This is for an M2 job leading our support teams in EMEA delivering support for Threat Protection, products under the Microsoft Defender brand. It is a regional focused M2 role with global outreach and impact.

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 Qualifications:
• Hands-on multi years experience in delivering operational excellence, delivery management, account management, sales, or vendor management experience in Technical Support operations.
• Must have experience in the management of managers.
• Must have worked in a global entity delivery complex solutions in a time bound manner.
• Experience in cybersecurity domain will be preferred.

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

• People Management: You lead teams of product experts that solve complex customer technical issues by practicing leadership principles, enabling a culture that drives accountability, and attracting/ retaining great people.
• Response and Resolution: You act as an escalation point for customer issues that are politically charged and with technical or financial complexity. You enable teams to effectively manage the customer relationship by removing roadblocks and helping prioritize technical issues at a global level.
• Readiness: You proactively analyze group readiness strategy and lead collaboration with global readiness, engineering and product teams to ensure your organization has the technical skills required to provide a great customer experience.
• Product/Process Improvement: You drive the partnership with internal groups to ensure aggregated customer feedback is considered to influence and drive product quality improvements.
• Business Integration: You establish the engagement strategy to promote effective collaboration with other teams and organizations to enable a great customer experience.
• Direct customer engagement: this role has strong direct connection with customers, handling executive escalations and hosting customer confidence calls.

Benefits

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, sex (including pregnancy), sexual 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.