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Senior Systems Development Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud

The role involves deploying and operating Google Distributed Cloud solutions for customers, focusing on complex infrastructure troubleshooting. Responsibilities include participating in international deployments and managing a 24x7 on-call rotation for client escalations.

Sunnyvale, California, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT-related field, or equivalent

practical experience.

* 5 years of experience with systems automation, systems design, and

implementation.

* 5 years of experience with technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment,

maintenance, troubleshooting) and with reliability of technical

infrastructure.

* 3 years of experience with Kubernetes or a similar container orchestration

platform.

* 3 years of experience with TCP/IP networking and with diagnosing and

resolving network-related issues.

* Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade storage

systems including SAN, NAS, or distributed file systems.

* Experience with physical data center operations including hardware

installation, power and cooling management, and asset lifecycle management.

* Experience managing customer relationships and virtualized environments.

* Knowledge of hypervisors (e.g., KVM, vSphere, Hyper-V).

* Ability to work directly with clients to understand their technical needs.

* Excellent communication skills with the ability to implement identity and

access management (IAM) solutions, such as active directory.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Systems Development Engineering (SDE) at Google is a role where you manage

services and systems at scale. SDEs creatively put their engineering discipline

to use automating the mundane and reducing toil. We don’t just write code to fix

bugs, but emphasize the development of tools and solutions that fix classes of

problems. We know it’s hard to control what you can’t measure – so we focus on

observability: instrumenting first, then turning data into knowledge, and

finally knowledge into action. We know that the operational efficiency of Google

systems, services, virtual compute environments and the operating systems that

power them impact the environment, not just the bottom line. We know that

working together we can do more, and that community matters.

Google brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences

and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in

a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful

projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the

support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Together we engineer and build the infrastructure, tools, access and telemetry

for systems that enable orchestration of Google-scale services. Come build

things that matter.

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a private cloud solution for public sector and

regulated enterprises. It is an offering that brings advanced Google services

on-premise, without ever needing a connection to the public internet. Built on

an open ecosystem with Kubernetes, GDC offers hardware and configurable

operations. We are hiring a Senior Systems Development Engineer to focus on

deploying and operating these GDC solutions for our customers.

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

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

Google’s 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: $163000 - $237000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Perform complex day-to-day troubleshooting and resolution of infrastructure

issues (e.g., Network, Storage, Servers, Operating System, Kubernetes, etc.).

* Participate in customer, partner, and internal team deployments which will

require international travel.

* Be able to personify and own the IO persona experiences defined in GDC

air-gapped product.

* Participate in the 24x7 on-call rotation to support escalations from client

deployments as well as internal reference deployments.

Which skills does this role require?

Systems AutomationSystems DesignKubernetesTCP/IP NetworkingInfrastructure TroubleshootingEnterprise StorageIAM SolutionsVirtualizationGoogle Distributed CloudTCP/IPInfrastructureAir-gapped ProductGCP

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