Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 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 distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or other technical fields.
- Experience with developing scalable architectures using microservice frameworks, PaaS, and container orchestration systems (i.e. Kubernetes, OpenShift), or other applicable platforms.
- 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.
- Expertise in serverless architectures and managed services (e.g., Google Cloud Run, Cloud Functions).
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. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your business acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, present solutions on Google Cloud.
You will identify, pursue, and win new business workloads and drive engagement within existing ones. You will have technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend business expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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 candidate applications for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.
- Define integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution. Provide "best practice" advice to optimize Google Cloud Platform effectiveness, balancing performance, reliability, and cost constraints.
- Partner with cross-functional sales and product teams to identify, qualify, and size new business opportunities. Influence sales strategy development and deploy solutions that protect and expand existing account portfolios.

