Cloud Engineer II, Networking, Professional Services, Google Cloud

About the role

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

Responsibilities

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• Work with customers to design and implement Cloud based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.
• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud networking solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices.
• Work with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
• Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
• Travel up to 30% for in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g., servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
• 6 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
• Experience in solution engineering, stakeholder management, professional services, or technical consulting.
• Experience writing code in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java).

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (preferred).
• Experience in scalable networking design, including high availability, redundancy, failover, and load balancing (preferred).
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) (preferred).
• Experience troubleshooting networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/S), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) (preferred).
• Experience in customer-facing migration, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations (preferred).
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management (preferred).

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficiency in cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with cloud-native tools and technologies.
• Understanding of cloud security principles and practices.

Benefits

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Pay

US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Up to 30% travel for in-region meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.