Platform Customer Engineer II, Google Cloud

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

In this role, you will partner with technical business teams to differentiate Google Cloud to the customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business tests. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use the expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business tests. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use the acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and present practical solutions on Google Cloud. You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads and driving engagement within existing ones.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting business motions.
• Combine business, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to present the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through demos, pilots and 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-business 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.

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 with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience with presenting to technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in promoting technical solutions in one or more of the following: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud Artificial Intelligence (AI), networking, migrations, security.
• Experience with managing the business cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
• Experience in building technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
• Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
• Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, engagement testing).