Cloud Platform Solutions Engineer

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is hiring a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales teams and differentiate Google Cloud for customers. You will be the customer’s technical partner, leading proofs-of-concept, demos, and cross-pillar cloud solutions that address business challenges.

You'll drive technical wins, define delivery plans, and present strategic technical options to both technical and senior leaders. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential to succeed in this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and 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 complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Customer-facing experience

Executive stakeholder communication

Programming and systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Cloud is hiring a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales teams and differentiate Google Cloud for customers. You will be the customer’s technical partner, leading proofs-of-concept, demos, and cross-pillar cloud solutions that address business challenges.

You'll drive technical wins, define delivery plans, and present strategic technical options to both technical and senior leaders. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential to succeed in this role.