Contract Azure Support Engineer Jobs in California

Required Qualifications

• Experience:3-5 years in technical support within an enterprise or MSP environment, with a strong focus on Azure infrastructure.
• Technical Skills:
• Solid experience with Azure services (VMs, storage, VNETs, NSGs, resource groups).
• Working knowledge of Azure AD troubleshooting (MFA, conditional access, SSPR, identity roles).
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and alert response workflows.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in ticketing systems with SLA accountability.
• Demonstrated teamwork, collaboration, and workload management ability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications such asAZ900orAZ104(or actively pursuing).
• Experience usingPowerShellfor Azure or M365 automation.
• Familiarity withhybrid identityandAzure AD Connect.
• UnderstandingITILand ITSM frameworks.

Additional Information

• Must be able to work in a 24/7 environment with rotating shifts or on call responsibilities.
• Opportunities for growth through training, certifications, and hands-on project exposure.
• Participation in process improvement, operational excellence initiatives, and crossteam collaboration.

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best.

We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing: Combined Health Insurance (Dental and Vision), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program.
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Employee Assistance Program, Employee Discount Program and more!

Note: This is not an all-encompassing list and should not be used as a complete description of the plan's benets.

We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for allI you require accessibility accommodation(s) or adjustment during any stage of the hiring process, please let your WWT Recruiter know.

The recruiter will work with you to understand you needs and help ensure an accessible experience throughout the interview process.

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Why WWT?

World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benets clients andpartners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class partnershipsto help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital,cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)-a
collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software-WWT enables clients andpartners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scaleusing its global integration and distribution capabilities.With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture-grounded incore values and leadership philosophies-has been recognized by Fortune and Great Place to Work
for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT providesproducts and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercialand SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

What is the Solutions Consulting & Engineering (SC&E) Team and why join?

Solutions Consulting & Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end (E2E) and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. We embody the OneWWT mindset by bringing the right talent at the right time from anywhere within WWT to solve our customer's problems. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical know-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.

What will you be doing?

We are seeking aLevel 2 Azure Support Engineerto join our Day 2 Operations team. This role focuses primarily on providing intermediate level technical support forMicrosoft Azure infrastructure services, including incident resolution, service requests, and proactive environment monitoring. You will collaborate with Tier 1 engineers, senior Azure engineers, and vendor support teams to ensure efficient issue resolution and exceptional service delivery.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience supporting core Azure workloads, strong troubleshooting ability, and the capability to handle moderately complex issues independently while escalating advanced cases when necessary. While the primary emphasis is Azure, familiarity with Microsoft 365 administration remains valuable for day-to-day operations.

Responsibilities

Azure Support (Primary Focus)

• Troubleshoot and resolve moderately complex incidents involving Azure virtual machines, storage, networking, load balancers, NSGs, and resource group management.
• Support Azure identity & access configurations, including Azure AD roles, permissions, MFA, conditional access, and identity troubleshooting.
• Monitor Azure environments, respond to alerts, and take corrective actions or escalate issues to senior engineers as required.
• Perform platform maintenance tasks such as VM resizing, restarts, disk/backup checks, and connectivity troubleshooting (VPN, ExpressRoute, VNETs).
• Assist with Azure policy/blueprint compliance, resource hygiene, and best practice governance reviews.
• Basic understanding of Azure Disaster Recovery processes including restoring files from backups, replication alerts, etc.

Service Requests & Operational Tasks

• Fulfill Azure related service requests such as provisioning VMs, assigning RBAC roles, configuring networking components, and updating resource configurations.
• Perform supporting Microsoft 365 tasks when needed (Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online), generally focused on user or permission-based requests.
• Document troubleshooting steps, environment details, and resolutions in the ticketing system.

Workflow & Team Responsibilities

• Manage ticket queues, triage incoming work, and distribute tickets to maintain balanced workload distribution.
• Conduct daily ticket quality reviews to ensure correct categorization, compliance, and SLA adherence.
• Assist with P1 case handling by gathering technical details, executing action items, and providing timely updates.
• Open and manage Microsoft support tickets with accurate tracking and communication.
• Collaborate with Tier 1 engineers for knowledge transfer and escalations; work with Tier 3 for advanced issue resolution.

Customer Engagement

• Communicate clearly and professionally with customers to gather details, deliver updates, and guide them through troubleshooting.
• Ensure timely, customerfocused interactions that uphold service excellence.

Process & ITIL Compliance

• Follow ITIL aligned incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Contribute documentation, knowledge base updates, and operational improvements.
• Participate in peer training, skill development, and team growth activities.