About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

* 6 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g. servers,

databases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or

maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.

* 6 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.

* Experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python,

Java, Go, C or C++) including data structures, algorithms, and software

design.

* Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, as required, for client

engagements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience with one or more third-party networking products (e.g., PANW,

Fortinet, VMWare Cloud Foundation).

* Experience in scalable networking design, including high availability,

redundancy, failover, and load balancing.

* Experience troubleshooting networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HyperText

Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/S), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

* Experience in customer-facing migration, including service discovery,

assessment, planning, execution, and operations.

* Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such

as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

* Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access

management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.

ABOUT THE JOB:

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through

the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive.

We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of

Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As

part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape

the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with

customers, employees, and partners.

As a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide exceptional

technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.

This includes providing best practices on secure foundational cloud

implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications,

cloud-ready application architectures, and more. You will also provide

prescriptive guidance in ensuring that customers receive the best of what GCP

can offer and have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and

maintaining applications in GCP. Additionally, you will work closely with

Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud

products and features.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its

business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage

Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more

sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google

Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical

business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Canada: $170000 - $174000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud networking

solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best

practices.

* Work with customers to design and implement Cloud based technical

architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that

enable business objectives.

* Work with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package

approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership,

methodologies, and published assets.

* Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage

project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for

successful client outcomes.

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud ArchitecturePythonJavaGoC++Project ManagementGoogle Cloud PlatformInfrastructure as CodeSystem MigrationCompute InfrastructureIdentity and Access ManagementSoftware DesignCloud SolutionsVirtualized EnvironmentsInfrastructure ProvisioningTechnical ArchitectureEnterprise SolutionsCertificate ManagementGCP

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