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 automating infrastructure provisioning, Developer

Operations (DevOps), continuous integration, or delivery utilizing Kubernetes

and Linux-based systems.

* 3 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, software design,

Linux environments and Kubernetes orchestration.

* Experience working with Cloud Providers such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

* Ability to travel 30% of the time, as needed, for client engagements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience with third-party networking (e.g., PANW, Fortinet, VMWare) and

design, including redundancy and load balancing.

* Experience troubleshooting networking protocols including TCP/IP, Hypertext

Transfer Protocol, and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

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

assessment, planning, execution, and operations.

* Experience with standard IT security practices, including IAM, data

protection, encryption, and certificate/key management.

* Experience running AI/ML training and inference workloads on GPU/TPU using

frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or Slurm.

* Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and related cloud-native services.

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 technical

guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including

providing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated

provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application

architectures, and more. You will also provide 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 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

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.

* Design and implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration

approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives in

collaboration with customers.

* 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.

* Travel up to 30% for in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite

delivery activities.

Which skills does this role require?

LinuxPythonJavaGoC++Google Cloud PlatformInfrastructure ProvisioningDevOpsCloud ArchitectureCloud MigrationSolution ArchitectureData ProtectionSoftware EngineeringTechnical ConsultingGCPMachine Learning

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