Cloud Manager, Platforms and Infrastructure, Google Cloud

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Singapore seeks a Professional Services Manager to lead a technical team in delivering cloud solutions. The role requires extensive consulting experience, people management skills, and the ability to operate under client pressures. Responsibilities include optimizing team performance, advising on cloud infrastructure, and ensuring strategic engagements with clients. This position offers growth opportunities and aims to empower business transformations through innovative technologies.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in consulting or a customer-facing role delivering cloud solutions.
• Experience in people management, managing Engineers or Architects through technical project delivery.
• Ability to travel up to 50% for client engagements as required.

Responsibilities

• Foster a positive team culture through hiring and developing cloud technical specialists.
• Provide domain expertise in cloud infrastructure and act as a trusted technical advisor.
• Drive the development of best practices and assets based on customer engagements.

Skills

Consulting

Cloud solutions delivery

People management

Technical advising

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud platforms

Job description

Overview

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Professional Services Manager, you will lead a technical team that is an integral part of the broader Professional Services organization. You will bring the leadership acumen to a team responsible for working directly with Google's customers to help them transform their business. You will help set and execute strategy and work with customer executives and key technical leaders to deploy solutions via Google Cloud. You will oversee relationships with key Google partners currently servicing accounts in order to manage programs, deliver consulting services, and provide technical guidance and best practices.

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

• Foster a positive team culture, through hiring and developing a team of Cloud Technical Specialists with objectives, performance management, and career coaching.
• Provide domain expertise in cloud infrastructure and platforms, serving as a trusted technical advisor to customers and solving cloud migration and transformation challenges.
• Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and external partners to manage and deliver cloud infrastructure solutions through discussions, presentations and recommendations, and implementation in Google Cloud environments.
• Drive the development of best practices and assets based on learnings from customer engagements to support initiatives to grow through partners and accelerate cloud adoption.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in consulting or a customer-facing role delivering cloud solutions.
• Experience in people management, managing Engineers or Architects through technical project delivery.
• Experience managing partners (e.g., channel partners, systems integrators, third-party developers) to deliver solutions.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time for client engagements as required.

Preferred qualifications

• MBA or Master\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with programming in one or more languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, or C++).
• Experience in one or more of the following disciplines: Data Center Design, buildout or Facility management, managing Linux environments, network design and deployment, databases, storage systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, GKE, or Elastic Kubernetes Service.
• Experience in systems design with architecting or explaining systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and methods available.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage across multiple time-sensitive initiatives.

About the job

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.

Equal opportunity and accommodations

Google is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation for applications or interviews, please contact us. See EEO Policy for full details.

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