Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Cloud

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote roles. Remote location: Minnesota, USA.Minimum qualifications... • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role. • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders. Preferred qualifications: • Experience with cloud or on-premises infrastructure engineering. • Experience with virtualization or containerization platforms. • Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms. • Experience with security controls such as encryption, identity management and access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing. • Experience with networking concepts such as software-defined networking, routing, virtual private networks, load balancers, and firewalls. About the jobWhen 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. As a Customer Engineer, you will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions, and architectures to solve their business challenges, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks. You will use your expertise and presentation skills to engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $118,000-$177,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities • Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers. • Manage the technical relationship with Google’s customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources. • Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments. • Guide customers through assessments of existing legacy application environment(s), provide recommendations on a roadmap for application modernization. • Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution on Google Cloud. 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 Apply Job!