Job Opportunities at Microsoft Nigeria

Job number: 1216442
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Internship
Start Date: Summer 2022
Duration: 3 months 

Job Description

• Every year, we welcome thousands of university graduates and students from every corner of the world to join Microsoft.
• You bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.
• We’re a company of learn-it-all’s rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centred around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.
• Does this sound like you? Learn more about our cultural attributes. 
• Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love-start your journey with us today!

Responsibilities

• Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into his or her work processes.
• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve his or her technical solutions.
• Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship
• One year of programming experience in an object-oriented language (C, C#, C++, Java, Python).
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• For these roles, we are only able to consider individuals studying at universities in Nigeria.
• We are focusing on individuals planning to conclude studying (having final graduation) in 2023. 

Benefits and Perks

• Industry-leading healthcare
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services.

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Job number: 1216825
Travel: 0-25%
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type Full-Time

Job Description

• Do you want to work in a highly impactful area with passionate and creative people who are dedicated to building compliant products and services, and helping meet the commitment to our Customers that Microsoft runs on Trust?
• Are you interested in learning more about Windows internals, and the protocols that work behind the scenes to make everyday tasks and computer operations happen?
• Come join the W+D CARE (Compliance and App Readiness Experiences) team, part of the Windows and Devices organization. The team focuses on protocol engineering, privacy engineering, tools and platform development, which are critical to Microsoft's business.
• We are an energetic and innovative team. Our daily work would equip you with in-depth knowledge on protocol and networking parsing, leverage Azure technologies and web front-end technologies to build services, at the same time you are encouraged to use new technologies like Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to solve real business challenges.
• We leverage in-depth Windows protocols knowledge and networking parsing knowledge to build protocol test suites and network parsers detailed to each bit, and host/support worldwide interoperability events in the US and Europe with 100+ industry partner companies’ participation yearly, which is critical to help Microsoft meet and exceed compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and platforms to support protocol engineering, which are open-sourced on GitHub;
• Respond to open source community on GitHub
• Represent Microsoft to attend Worldwide Interoperability Plugfest events
• Implement server/client protocol behaviour to guarantee Windows Protocol document quality and validate windows interoperability for new windows releases or updates to ensure Microsoft’s antitrust compliance commitment.
• Develop other compliance-related tools/Azure services utilizing the latest technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Experience with scripting languages like Python/PowerShell
• Experience with Machine Learning and Natural Language processing would be an advantage.

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Job number 1206929

Travel 0-25 %

Profession Services

Role type Individual Contributor
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.

Microsoft has a tremendous opportunity to exceed customer expectations and drive greater customer loyalty and trust, which leads to greater satisfaction, retention, and growth. The CEnS organization is looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success to help us build a future where customers come to us, not only because we provide industry-leading products and services, and also because we provide a differentiated and connected customer experience that is rooted in our commitment to delivering on customer outcomes.

Responsibilities
As a Customer Success Account Manager, you are the primary customer-facing role responsible for customer success by managing program deliveries and strong customer relationships. Our priority is the customers' successful adoption and productive use of Microsoft cloud technologies. You are front and center with our customers supporting their digital journey and empowering them to achieve more!

Key Accountabilities include:

• Fulfill Support contract obligations by driving quality planning and delivery of Support services to realize customer business outcomes and overall experience with Microsoft solutions.
• Partner with your customer and Account Team to prioritize and plan customer engagements and programs across Cloud and on-premises workloads.
• Define outcomes to improve the prioritized workloads' health, performance, and business capabilities to drive customer value realization.
• Orchestration, customer sponsor management, and stakeholder communication of prioritized engagements and programs.
• Track, escalate and plan to remediate technical blockers and provide engineering feedback to further our product and solutions as appropriate.
• We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other's ideas because we are better together.
• We admire what humans dare to achieve and motivate each other every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.

Qualifications
Language Qualification
English, French and Arabic Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

• We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Customer Success Account Manager (CSAM) to drive program management for Commercial accounts that may have Cloud, on-premise, and hybrid workload engagements running concurrently. The CSAM owns consumption and delivery execution of operative solutions and operational health as the single point of orchestration for technical delivery teams and cross-cloud project oversight.
• Experience: 2-3 years of success in engagement management and program management is essential. Prior work experience in a Program Manager position focused on Cloud and software/services solutions preferred.
• Leadership: This role requires effective communication and collaboration skills and displays executive presence and confidence in varying levels of customer situations. The CSAM must show leadership in collaborating with multiple teams and critical stakeholders who may deliver complex customer success solutions.
• Relationship Building: A proven history of building relationships with senior customer executives in Commercial accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get a consensus on solutions/engagements is essential.
• Program Management: The ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize activities, and determine outcomes is essential. Also, the capability to drive both customer and Microsoft activity is critical to achieving results.
• Collaboration and Communication: A proven history of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through with verbal and written communication. Good presentation skills with various levels of management (Senior Executives and IT management).
• Technical: Knowledge of/Experience with Cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and migrations preferred. Knowledge of market trends and competitive insights preferred. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to utilize partner solutions to solve customer needs.

Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Technologies:
Awareness of all Microsoft solutions with a focus on Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture is desirable, but a passion for technology is a requirement.

Travel required: 10-30%

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Responsibilities

• Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into his or her work processes.
• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve his or her technical solutions.
• Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or has recently completed a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science or related field.
• A year or two of programming experience in an object-oriented language (C, C#, C++, Java, Python).
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
   

• For these roles we are only able to consider individuals studying at universities in Nigeria
*We are focusing on individuals planning to conclude studying (having final graduation) in 2022. 

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Job number: 1189807
Travel: 0-25%
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type Full-Time

Overview
Join our team and make the world better for developers:

• We are building the Developer Relations dream team in Azure engineering. Our global team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds. We're excited to support and contribute to open source platforms, tools, and processes. We’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn.
• This is the heart and soul of reinventing Microsoft’s relationship with developers. Sound exciting? This is your opportunity to join and be a key part of our mission! 
• We are looking for a person who wants to make .NET on Azure the best experience for developers everywhere to become our next Cloud Advocate.
• A successful Cloud Advocate has equally strong technical and people skills.
• You love talking about .NET and Azure as much as you love coding. In this role you’ll find yourself collaborating with internal Microsoft product teams ranging from developer tooling to Azure services to improve the .NET on Azure developer experience. 
• You’ll use your understanding of our products to create documentation, write blogs, record videos, and give presentations to help developers become more productive.
• And by being plugged in to the .NET community, you’ll help build an inclusive environment where all feel welcome and make sure their voice is heard inside of Microsoft.

Responsibilities
As a .NET Cloud Advocate, you’ll help create the best developer experience for .NET developers on Azure. You’ll help do this by:

• Create technical content, videos, and samples from beginner to best practices that demonstrate how to develop .NET applications on Azure.
• Network and build relationships with local .NET community members to foster an inclusive and welcoming environment.
• Building and/or contributing to key OSS projects.
• Champion .NET and Azure services in your local community at conferences, meetups, coding boot camps, online forms, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and more.
• Scale your efforts by partnering with the Microsoft field and developer in community programs like Microsoft MVPs.
• Write documentation, Microsoft Learn, and other first party content teaching developers best practices for our products.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years software development experience.
• 5+ years .NET development experience.
• 3+ years ASP.NET web and web API experience.
• Solid communication skills, including public speaking and technical writing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ year Xamarin or other mobile development experience.
• 1+ year working with containerized applications.
• Strong sense of teamwork, personal integrity, and responsibility
• Customer advocate with high agency and ownership mindset.