Customer Engineer II, Platform, National Security, Google Public Sector

Google; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and(dis)

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays/year

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks a Customer Engineer to partner with Sales, differentiate Google Cloud, and craft cloud solutions for Federal Law Enforcement needs. You will engage with customers and partners, develop architectures, run proofs-of-concepts, and help drive successful deployments across the Google Cloud platform.

US-based role with Reston, VA, or DC locations; individual pay factors apply and compensation includes a 127k–184k USD base with a 42.86% bonus target plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in customer-facing engineering roles with Federal Law Enforcement customers.
• 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.
• Active Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build customer specific, go-to-market solutions to reduce business cycles and drive customer workloads as measured through pipeline and business growth.
• Own the technical relationship with customers, enabling pilots or proofs-of-concept and guiding migrations to ensure successful deployment.
• Build trusted advisory relationships and advise on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and infrastructure.
• Lead technical projects, advocacy, bid responses, product/solution briefings, and coordination of supporting technical resources.

Skills

Customer-facing engineering

Executive stakeholder engagement

Cloud engineering

On-premise engineering

Programming & prototyping

Top Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Serverless

Microservices

Job description

Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Reston, VA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in customer-facing engineering roles with Federal Law Enforcement customers.
• 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.
• Must possess an active Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, and virtual private networks/application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.
• Experience with containers and associated technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Microservices.
• Ability to articulate the concrete value of modern cloud ecosystems, multicloud and hybrid cloud architectures, data analytics pipelines, and sovereign security postures to Federal Agency leaders, including (CIO, CDO, CAIO, CISO) and across multiple decision makers.
• Ability to learn, understand, and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the GCP space.
• Fluency in cloud compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, CJIS).

About The Job

As a Customer Engineer in the Federal Law Enforcement Team, 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. 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.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $127000 - $184000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Build customer specific, go-to-market solutions to reduce business cycles and drive customer workloads as measured through pipeline and business growth.
• Own the technical relationship with customers empowering them to drive a successful pilot or proof-of-concept, support partners drive toward acceptance of the technical proposal, leading to an agreement, and work with customers during the migration phase to assure they have all the tools necessary to deliver a successful deployment.
• Build trusted advisory relationships and make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
• Lead technical projects, technology advocacy, support bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of supporting technical resources.

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 .