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.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Infrastructure, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our most strategic product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, to design data foundation architectures and develop Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers.

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 $153,000-$222,000 + 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

• Solve analytics-centered customer challenges and provide a critical feedback loop to unblock customers and influence product development.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 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 in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with core infrastructure concepts such as compute, storage, networking, and backup.

• Experience engaging with, presenting to, or influencing technical stakeholders or executive leaders.

• Experience with Google Cloud products and differentiation from competition.

• Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following areas: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, AI, Networking, Migrations or Security.

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Ansible) and designing Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.