Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Platform

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

* 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or

support role.

* Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or

containerization platforms.

* Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping,

demos, or customer workshops.

* Experience working with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or

executive leaders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.

* Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management,

access control, attack vectors, and pen testing.

* Experience with networking concepts such as software-defined networking,

routing, virtual private networks, load balancers, and firewalls.

ABOUT THE JOB:

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next

for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are

developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from

infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated

to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational

institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come

to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business,

you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help

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

customers, employees and partners.

As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales

teams to differentiate Google Cloud to the customers. You will serve as the

customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in

technical-led conversations to understand their business issues. You will

troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs-of-concepts

and demos, and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business

issues. You will engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively

present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will focus on

identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads.

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 - $222000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand

key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve

technical blockers.

* Share enterprise infrastructure modernization expertise to support the

technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, support

bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and

partner with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer

adoption to Google Cloud.

* Work with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in

customer and partner environments.

* Guide customers through assessments of existing legacy application

environments and provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for

infrastructure and application modernization.

* Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and

application infrastructure to implement a complete solution on Google Cloud.