Platform Customer Engineer, Corporate, Google Cloud

About the role

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus. Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Irvine, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
• Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Networking, Migrations, Security.
• Experience driving the entire business cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
• Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
• Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
• Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining new customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories.
• Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, pen testing).

Skills

Excellent technical, communication and organizational skills. Breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. Blend of sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

Benefits

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $127000 - $184000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits