Cloud Platform Solutions Engineer — Customer-Focused

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,400 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud seeks a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales, differentiating Google Cloud for customers and acting as their primary technical partner. You will troubleshoot, run proofs of concepts, and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve business challenges.

You will engage with technical and business leaders, lead demos and workshops, and define delivery plans while driving technical wins across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 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 25% of the time as needed.

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

Stakeholder engagement

Programming & systems design

Travel 25%

Customer-facing cloud engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Cloud seeks a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales, differentiating Google Cloud for customers and acting as their primary technical partner. You will troubleshoot, run proofs of concepts, and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve business challenges.

You will engage with technical and business leaders, lead demos and workshops, and define delivery plans while driving technical wins across platforms.