Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud Platform Reliability

Google; Dublin; On-site; EUR 118,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Ireland is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects across Google Cloud. You will plan requirements, manage risks, schedules, and communicate with cross-functional teams and executives.

The role emphasizes reliability, data-driven dashboards, and scalable automation. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in program management, cloud project experience, and a track record of process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in Cloud Platform projects.
• Experience designing dashboards and reports using data-analysis tools and bug-tracking systems.
• AI proficiency to lead automation of complex workflows and reporting.
• Track record in continuous process improvement and transitioning goals into evergreen processes.
• Domain knowledge in reliability engineering principles such as availability, SLOs, error budgets, progressive rollouts and disaster recovery testing.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to communicate and influence across multiple levels.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and certify program-level success and exit criteria; establish durable transition strategies.
• Manage end-to-end execution, tracking, and reporting across production systems; scale program operations.
• Identify and align executive stakeholders; manage escalations and coordinate across workstreams.
• Break down large challenges into structured phases and execution backlogs; delegate components.
• Leverage data, scripts, and issue-tracking tools to build dashboards and scorecards; integrate AI to accelerate execution.

Skills

Program management

Strategic thinking

cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

Apps Script

spreadsheet engines

bug-tracking systems

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in Cloud Platform projects.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining centralized dashboards and reports using data-analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Apps Script, spreadsheet engines) and bug-tracking systems to track compliance metrics and eliminate manual execution toil.
• AI Proficient to lead automation of complex workflows, streamline reporting, and accelerate program execution at scale.
• Track record in driving continuous process improvement (e.g., retrospectives, execution updates) and transitioning program goals into evergreen operational processes.
• Domain knowledge in reliability engineering principles such as availability, SLOs, error budgets, progressive rollouts and disaster recovery testing.
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically. Communicate and influence with multiple levels of the business.

About The Job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

The successful Technical Program Manager (TPgM) in this role is a highly strategic technical partner, an operational catalyst, and a reliability who is organized and detail oriented, communicates with ease at all levels, analytical in nature, has the ability to instill processes in order to deliver predictability, and can balance customer needs across multiple organizations across Google Cloud.

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.

Ireland: €118000 - €120000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Partner with engineering leadership to define, document, and certify program-level success and exit criteria, establishing durable transition strategies to prevent operational backsliding. Lead the development, ratification, and enforcement of cloud-wide reliability and engineering policies.
• Manage end-to-end execution, tracking, and reporting of complex technical requirements across hundreds of critical production systems. Scale program operations, monitor execution backlog burndowns, and coordinate across workstreams to drive alignment.
• Identify and align executive cross-functional stakeholders, manage escalations, resolve bottlenecks, and serve as the central point of contact for horizontal initiatives.
• Take ambiguous, large-scale technical challenges, break them down into structured phases and execution backlogs, and delegate components effectively across teams.
• Leverage data, scripts, and issue-tracking tools to build dashboards, metrics, and scorecards that monitor compliance and reduce toil. Integrate AI to automate complex workflows and accelerate program execution at scale.

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 .