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 Platform and Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide exceptional technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. This includes providing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more. You will also provide prescriptive guidance in ensuring that customers receive the best of what GCP can offer and have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in GCP. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.
Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $127,000-$183,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain expertise in cloud platforms and infrastructure. Solve cloud platform issues.

• Work with customers to design and implement cloud based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.

• Be a technical advisor and perform troubleshooting to resolve technical issues for customers.

• Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.

• Travel up to 30% for in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.

Minimum qualifications

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

• 3 years of experience automating infrastructure provisioning, DevOps, continuous integration, or delivery.

• Experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C or C++) including software design.

• Experience designing cloud enterprise solutions and supporting customer projects to completion.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building prototypes or applications.

• Experience with data structures and algorithms.

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) techniques such as prompt engineering, dual encoders, and embedding vectors.

• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.