Practice Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

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

support role.

* Experience with architectural design patterns, platform engineering (e.g.

Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, devops, artifact management or code

repositories), virtualization deployments, container runtimes, or networking.

* Experience with end-to-end SDLC including application security, performance

or monitoring/telemetry.

* Experience working with demos, prototypes, or workshops with customers.

* Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and

executive leaders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience with agentic architectures, AI-assisted software delivery and

developer tooling.

* Experience with observability and SRE principles.

* Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management,

microservice frameworks, and PaaS.

ABOUT THE JOB:

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the

power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government

agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in

to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You

listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow

sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You

liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on

top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Application

Modernization, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate

Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible

for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads.

You will leverage your deep expertise in our most strategic product areas, in

partnership with Platform CEs, to be a writing code to develop prototypes,

proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to

customers. You will solve application-centered customer challenges and provide a

critical feedback loop to influence customers and product development.

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: $123000 - $177000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Drive the technical win for complex workloads within application

modernization to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting

the sales cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.

* Combine sales strategies, development and prototyping to provide functional,

customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.

* Provide deep technical consultation to customers, acting as a technical

advisor and building lasting customer relationships.

* Leverage learnings from customer engagements to contribute to reusable

solutions and assets with the Go-To-Market team.

* Provide critical feedback from customer engagements to product and

engineering teams to improve architectures and solutions.