Customer Engineer III, Application Modernization, Google Cloud

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Customer Engineer III for Application Modernization within Google Cloud. This role requires expertise in cloud-native architecture and involves collaborating with technical stakeholders to enhance customer solutions. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in modernizing applications and presenting innovative designs to clients, ensuring robust solutions in the cloud environment.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in cloud environments required.
• Broad experience with application modernization and development methodologies.
• Strong presentation skills necessary for engaging technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Identify business opportunities and resolve technical blockers.
• Provide recommendations for application modernization.
• Engage with customers to understand and meet their cloud needs.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Application performance tuning

Architectural design patterns

Virtualization deployments

Application security

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

API management

Microservice frameworks

Job description

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture and development methodologies (e.g., modernizing legacy applications and application performance profiling and tuning) in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with architectural design patterns, platform engineering (e.g., Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, image management or repository management), virtualization deployments, container deployments, application security, or networking.
• Experience in engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, and PaaS.
• Experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. Golang, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience with custom Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, custom resources, webhooks.
• Experience prospecting, building and maintaining collaborative customer relationships from inception with engineers and engineering leadership stakeholders.
• Experience in Engineering and supporting ML Infrastructure, systems, and frameworks, including performance engineering and optimization for large-scale training.
  
  

About The Job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

In this role, you will partner with technical Business teams as an enterprise hybrid cloud subject matter expert to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will help customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business tests, 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 present solutions on Google Cloud. You will have experience with data center environments as it relates to modernization, and cloud-native architecture. You will also be experienced with cloud application architectures, networking, microservices, and container orchestrators.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$218,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Share in-depth infrastructure and cloud modernization expertise to support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
• Guide customers through assessments of their legacy application environments, provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify opportunities for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.
• Structure and execute prototyping workshops to verify proposed architectures, developing best practices, and documenting blocking requirements for prioritization with engineering.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required, acting as a public advocate for Google Cloud.
  
  
  

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 .

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales, General Business, and Customer Service

• Industries

  Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet

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