Customer Engineer, Migrations Specialist, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Milano; Hybrid; EUR 124,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Customer Engineer, Migrations Specialist for Google Cloud, focusing on migrations, enterprise architectures, and modernization of customer environments. You will engage with executives and technical leaders to design scalable cloud solutions and demonstrate them in customer and partner environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with sales teams, proofs of concept, and strategic guidance to accelerate customer success across multiple regions including Italy and

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 infrastructure engineering, on-premise infrastructure engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer objections, and develop strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Share enterprise infrastructure modernization expertise to support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy and proof-of-concept work.
• Collaborate with Google Cloud product teams to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
• Demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments for scalable architecture modernization.
• Guide customers through assessments of legacy environments and provide a prioritization roadmap for modernization.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Cloud infrastructure engineering

On-premise infrastructure engineering

Virtualization

Containerization

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Customer Engineer, Migrations Specialist, Google Cloud

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• 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 infrastructure engineering, on-premise infrastructure engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
• Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and pen testing.
• Experience with networking concepts such as software-defined networking, routing, virtual private networks, load balancers and firewalls.
• Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building Greenfield territories in Enterprise accounts.

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 Specialist Customer Engineer, you will seek to accelerate Google Cloud customer success by providing domain-specific technical expertise.

You will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business challenges, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks. As a Senior Specialist with deep experience in cloud compute technology (e.g., Google Compute Engine) and enterprise platforms and workloads (SQL Server), with the ability to design and propose technical architectures considering Google Cloud'S unique differentiators. You will use your expertise and presentation skills to engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

You will be a part of a team of fellow Googlers working in an environment of respect where we promote equal opportunities to succeed.

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.

Germany: €150000 - €153000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Italy: €124000 - €127000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Share in-depth enterprise infrastructure modernization expertise to support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
• Work directly with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.
• Guide customers through assessments of existing legacy application environments and provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for infrastructure and application modernization.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution on Google Cloud.

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