- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in planning infrastructure modernization as a technical consultant, technical pre-sales engineer, or enterprise architect.
- Experience as an enterprise architect in a cloud computing environment in a Telco or in a customer-facing role.
- 4 years of experience working in IT strategy.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience in networking (e.g., Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks) and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.
- Experience in architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable and secure distributed systems.
- Experience with containers and associated technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Serverless, and Microservices.
- Experience with application development concepts and technologies (e.g. CI/CD, Java, Python, Chef, Puppet, Ansible).
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 engineered 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 Customer Engineer, you will work with the Sales team to introduce Google Cloud to customers. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve the business challenges, and problem-solve any potential technical roadblocks.
Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.
Responsibilities
- Guide customers and peers to solve difficult problems with innovative and novel solutions, leveraging an excellent set of technical competences.
- Manage the technical relationship with Google customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.
- Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
- Recommend migration strategies, enterprise architectures, migration tools, and cloud infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.