Partner Engineer, Google Cloud, GSI

Google; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Global System Integrators (GSI) Partner Engineer in Hyderabad, India, to lead technical strategy, develop cloud solutions, and engage with business leaders. You will serve as the primary technical partner for GSI partners, facilitating technical discussions and troubleshooting issues.

The ideal candidate will have substantial experience with cloud architecture, excellent communication skills, and the ability to architect comprehensive solutions to drive business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a partner management or support role.
• Experience engaging with technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the GSI partner technical strategy.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions and drive technical wins.
• Be the technical point-of-contact for GSI partners on product inquiries.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Cloud engineering

Containerization platforms

Stakeholder engagement

Technical presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a partner management or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on‑premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Experience translating customer objectives into Cloud solutions across multiple domains.
• Experience in managing GSI or other channel partners as a technical alliance lead or engineer.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience managing multiple stakeholders, and working cross‑functionally, in a collaborative environment.
• Experience building business partnerships with partners and customers in an architecture or solution delivery role.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience conducting partner technical engagements.

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 Global System Integrators (GSI) Partner Engineer, you will partner with GSI Partner development and Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our GSI partners. You will serve as the GSI partner’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical‑led conversations to understand their business issues. 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 with the GSI Partner and assist to define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your 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 and driving penetration within existing ones as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend sales prowess, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio. 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

• Develop and own the GSI partner technical 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 assisting and guiding the GSI partner to develop and deliver complex demos, pilots and in‑depth workshops.
• Architect cross‑pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers with GSI partners; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Plan and support the GSI Partner in building, developing and enhancing their Google Cloud practice.
• Be the technical point‑of‑contact for GSI partner for product and solution inquiries, working in conjunction with Product and Support specialists within Google Cloud platform (GCP).

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.