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 growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As Senior Cloud Integration Architect, you will work directly with Google’s most strategic customers on infrastructure projects that transform their business. You will provide consulting, program management, and technical expertise on customer engagements, while working with client executives and key technical leaders to deploy solutions on Google Cloud Platform. You will also work with key Google partners to deliver joint consulting services, providing technical guidance and infrastructure best practices.
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 technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver implementations of cloud solutions, become a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.

• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud based distributed virtualized infrastructure solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices.

• Work with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and implement 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 50% of the time for client engagements.

Minimum qualifications

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

• 7 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.

• Experience in one or more of the following: Data Center Infrastructure, Networking, DevOps, Security, Compute, Storage, Hadoop, Kubernetes, or SRE.

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time as needed for client engagements.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in one or more of the following specialized domains: data center infrastructure (e.g., deployments, upgrades and reliability), advanced networking and storage (e.g., system design of load balancers, firewalls, VPN, and production-grade storage), accelerated computing (e.g., Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, and GPU workloads).

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

• Excellent communication, writing, presentation, and problem-solving skills.