Customer Engineer, Platform, Google Cloud (English, French)

Google; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 162,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud Platform team seeks a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales, differentiate Google Cloud, and serve as the customer's primary technical partner and trusted advisor.

You will engage in technical-led conversations, troubleshoot questions, run proofs of concepts and demos, and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions to solve business challenges, driving technical wins and delivery plans for customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 6 years of experience in cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience engaging with technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
• Ability to communicate in English and French fluently.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy for targeted sales motions.
• Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture to prove value through demos, pilots and workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define delivery plans for customers.
• Support pricing activities and transition final delivery plan to implementation teams.
• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan and support cross-functional teams during ramp and migration phases.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Customer-facing engagement

Technical communication

Programming languages

Bilingual English/French

Cloud engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Virtualization platforms

Containerization platforms

Cloud platforms

On-premise engineering

Job description

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 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 engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
• Ability to communicate in English and French fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Networking, Migrations, Security.
• Experience driving the entire sales cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
• Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
• Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
• Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, pen testing).

About The Job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as the customer's primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business challenges. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads. You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, and more.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $162000 - $166000 (CAD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
• Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers. Continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .