Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist, Google Cloud

Google Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist to join our Toronto team. This senior technical role works with customers to design, deploy, and optimize cloud-based architectures, bridging complex technical requirements with business outcomes.

You will embed with customers and internal teams, architect cloud networking solutions, lead migrations, and contribute to best practices, thought leadership, and published assets. Travel up to 30% for client engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6 years of networking, compute infrastructure, and cloud solution design experience
• 6 years of project management and technical solution delivery
• Proficiency in programming languages (Python/Java/Go/C/C++) with data structures and algorithms
• Experience with third-party networking products (PANW, Fortinet, VMware Cloud Foundation)
• Knowledge of containerization and cloud orchestration (GKE)
• Familiarity with IT security practices such as IAM, data protection, encryption

Responsibilities

• Propose and architect cloud networking solution architectures tailored to customer requirements and best practices
• Design and implement cloud-based technical architectures, migrations, and applications optimisations that meet business objectives
• Collaborate with internal specialists, product, and engineering to publish approaches, best practices, and lessons learned as assets
• Manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks, and timelines with sales, partners, and customer stakeholders
• Travel up to 30% for client engagements

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Networking

Project delivery

Programming languages

Containerization

IT security basics

Customer-facing migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Google Cloud is looking for a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist to join their team in Toronto, Ontario. This is a senior technical role where you'll work directly with customers to design, deploy, and optimise cloud-based architectures — bridging the gap between complex technical requirements and real business outcomes.

Day-to-day, you'll be embedded with customers and internal teams alike, shaping how organisations migrate to and operate on Google Cloud. Whether you're architecting a cloud networking solution, leading a migration project, or contributing to thought leadership materials, this role keeps you at the cutting edge of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.

About the Role: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist

As a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist at Google Cloud, you'll own the technical relationship with customers from solution design through to deployment. You'll be responsible for proposing cloud networking solution architectures, managing implementations according to best practices, and working hands‑on with customers to design cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimisations that drive measurable business results.

Collaboration is central to this position. You'll work closely with internal specialists, product teams, and engineering groups to package learnings into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets. You'll also interface regularly with sales teams, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to keep projects on track — managing scope, priorities, deliverables, risks, and timelines throughout each engagement. Travel of up to 30% may be required for client engagements.

Benefits and Salary

This role offers a competitive annual salary of $170,000 – $174,000 CAD, plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and a full Google benefits package. To learn more about what Google offers its employees, visit their official benefits page.

Job Details

Company: Google

Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Pay: $170,000 – $174,000 CAD per year + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll be at the intersection of technical depth and customer engagement. Your work will shape how organisations architect and operate on Google Cloud — making it essential that you can communicate complex solutions clearly while also getting hands‑on with implementation details.

• Propose and architect cloud networking solution architectures tailored to customer requirements and implementation best practices
• Design and implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimisations that enable customer business objectives
• Collaborate with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets
• Manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks, issues, and timelines by interacting with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders
• Travel up to 30% of the time as required for client engagements

Requirements / Skills

Google is looking for a candidate with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure, networking, and project delivery who can operate effectively in both technical and customer-facing contexts. The ideal person brings deep hands‑on experience with cloud solutions and virtualized environments, paired with the communication skills to lead complex client engagements.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 6 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g., servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers), and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments
• 6 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery
• Coding proficiency in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C or C++), including data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Experience with third‑party networking products such as PANW, Fortinet, or VMware Cloud Foundation (preferred)
• Scalable networking design experience including high availability, redundancy, failover, and load balancing (preferred)
• Troubleshooting experience with networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTPS, and BGP (preferred)
• Customer‑facing migration experience, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations (preferred)
• Knowledge of containerisation and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) (preferred)
• Familiarity with IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, and certificate and key management (preferred)

6 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure, and architecting or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments; 6 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery; coding experience in one or more general purpose languages including data structures, algorithms, and software design