Practice Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical win for complex workloads within application modernization to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the sales cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
• Combine sales strategies, development and prototyping to provide functional, customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.
• Provide deep technical consultation to customers, acting as a technical advisor and building lasting customer relationships.
• Leverage learnings from customer engagements to contribute to reusable solutions and assets with the Go-To-Market team.
• Provide critical feedback from customer engagements to product and engineering teams to improve architectures and solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with architectural design patterns, platform engineering (e.g. Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, devops, artifact management or code repositories), virtualization deployments, container runtimes, or networking.
• Experience with end-to-end SDLC including application security, performance or monitoring/telemetry.
• Experience working with demos, prototypes, or workshops with customers.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

$123,000 - $177,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits