Customer Solutions Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud (English, Mandarin) - Singapore

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Singapore is seeking an experienced Cloud Support Engineer to provide technical guidance and support for Google Cloud services. Responsibilities include troubleshooting cloud issues, working with customers on architecture design, and improving product usability. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and 6 years of relevant experience, including proficiency in various programming languages. This role requires strong communication skills in English and Mandarin and the ability to work flexible hours.

Qualifications

• 6 years of experience with Developer Operations (DevOps).
• Experience with general purpose coding and data structures.
• Ability to work non-standard hours including weekends.

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions and recommendations on cloud platforms.
• Work with customers on cloud-based architectures.
• Diagnose and resolve customer issues with GCP products.
• Participate in on-call schedules for technical resolutions.

Skills

Automating infrastructure provisioning

Troubleshooting

Customer needs advocacy

Coding in Python

Coding in Java

Cloud computing

Knowledge of container orchestration

Communication in English

Communication in Mandarin

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Job description

Product area

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.

Job description

The Google Cloud Support team guides customers through the moments that matter in their cloud journey to help businesses grow. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, data centers, and software infrastructure.

In this role, you will provide technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. You will be providing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud‑ready application architectures, etc. You will work with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.

You will be a part of a global team that provides support to help customers make the switch to Google Cloud. You will troubleshoot technical problems for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and coding/scripting. You will make the products easier to adopt and use by making improvements to the product, tools, processes and documentation.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Provide solutions in cloud platforms and infrastructure; solve cloud platform tests. Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.
• Work with customers to design and implement Cloud based architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business goals.
• Manage the customer’s problem through diagnosis, resolution, or investigation tools implementation to increase productivity for customer issues on GCP products.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in rotating on‑call schedules including during nights, weekends and holidays to ensure prompt and proper resolution of customer‑impacting technical tests and travel up to 15% in‑region for meetings and onsite delivery activities.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with automating infrastructure provisioning, Developer Operations (DevOps), troubleshooting, advocating customer needs and managing technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, Operating Systems, networking).
• Experience with coding in general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, C++) including data structures and algorithms, designing enterprise solutions, and supporting customer projects to completion.
• Experience in testing, maintaining, or launching software products, including design and architecture.
• Ability to communicate in English and Mandarin to support client relationship management in this region.
• Ability to work non‑standard hours, including working weekends, night shifts, holidays as required.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with cloud computing with the knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and debugging workload issues across multi‑node environments.
• Experience in working with distributed systems, with the knowledge of common solutions, design patterns, or best practices.
• Experience with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.
• Experience in building prototypes or applications.