Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization, Public Sector

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS, or SaaS.

• Experience with legacy and modern application development, cloud service delivery and deployment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as a technology consultant, technical architect, technical sales engineer, or solutions architect.
• Experience with cloud-native software development methodologies and tools to support application development/deployment stages including CI/CD.
• Experience in networking areas: Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, VPN and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.
• Experience large-scale deployments, developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, PaaS, and container orchestration systems.
• Understanding of application security patterns including web application security, service mesh, and mobile security strategies.

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 world's largest 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 of infinite capacity running on infrastructure without any upfront commitment.

We're on a mission to completely change the world of enterprise computing, and in this role you'll be helping shape and execute the strategies to help customers. As a Customer Engineer, you will become a trusted advisor to our clients 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 clients.

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

• Use your technical expertise to help clients 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 Request for Information (RFI) response documents.
• Work 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 practices advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud Platform effectiveness.

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