About the job

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.
As a Cloud Engineer, you will work directly with Google’s customers on critical application development and modernization projects to help them transform their businesses. You will provide consulting, program management, and technical expertise to customers while working with client executives and key technical leaders to drive the adoption of modern applications and cloud-native products on Google Cloud Platform.

In this role, you will work with customers on application re-design and implementation, including application scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations such as application and feature roll-outs, monitoring, and more. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and facilitate excellence in our products.

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

• Work with customer development leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful, modern cloud applications, becoming a trusted advisor to decision-makers throughout the engagement.

• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud-native application development 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 approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• 3 years of experience in cloud architecture and system design.

• Experience with architecting, developing, and maintaining technical solutions by leveraging virtual machines, containers (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE), serverless computing, or software defined networking (SDN).

• Experience working in a cloud computing environment (i.e., infrastructure, storage, platforms or data).

• Experience in containerizing applications (e.g., Docker) and migrating them to the public cloud.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with customer-facing migrations, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.

• Experience reading software code in one or more languages (e.g., JavaScript, or Python).

• Experience in JAX, Py Torch, and Tensor Flow, specifically regarding how they map to different hardware back-ends.

• Experience in systems design, with the ability to architect or explain system interactions, including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and available methods.

• Familiarity with Google Cloud infrastructure components, such as GPU orchestration (e.g., Multi Kueue), Vertex AI services, and model serving concepts on GKE or Compute Engine.

• Understanding of cloud service models (e.g., IaaS) and cloud-native architectures.