Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience as a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role.
• Experience architecting/developing software for scalable, distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or other technical field.
• Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, PaaS (i.e., Spring Cloud, Istio), and container orchestration systems (i.e., Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry), or other applicable platforms (i.e., Knative).
• Experience with cloud-native software development methodologies and tools to support application development/deployment stages including CI/CD (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Concourse)
• Experience in advanced areas of networking, including Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies

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. Google Cloud Platform is a set of modular cloud-based services that allow you to create anything from simple websites to complex applications. It externalizes the best of how we run the software-as-a-service (SaaS) company and makes our infrastructure, software, and processes available to all. Google Cloud Platform delivers the public cloud-on-demand provisioning capacity running on infrastructure without any upfront commitment. As a Customer Engineer, you'll help shape and execute strategies to help customers. You will become a trusted advisor to our customers and prospects, and help them get as much value out of our platform as possible. You will use both technical and business skills to move agreements forward as efficiently as possible. We optimize for growth and ensure customer success by providing services to our customers. 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

• Help customers determine if Google Cloud Platform is right for them.
• Prepare and deliver product messaging in an effort to highlight Google Cloud Platform value proposition and unique differentiators, using whiteboarding, slide presentations, product demonstrations, white papers, trial management, and RFI (Request for Information) response documents.
• Work directly with Google Cloud Platform products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer/partner environments.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution, providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud Platform effectiveness.
• Guide customers through assessments of their existing legacy application environment(s), provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify applications for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.