Platform Cloud Solutions Architect — Customer Engineer

Google; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales teams, serving as the primary technical partner and trusted advisor. You will engage in technical conversations to understand business challenges, troubleshoot questions, and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve customer problems.

You will drive the technical win and shape delivery and consumption plans. You will identify, pursue, and win new workloads, penetrating existing ones with breadth across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 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.

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 architecture

Customer-facing

Cloud engineering

On-premise engineering

Virtualization

Containerization

Stakeholder engagement

Programming languages

Debugging

Systems design

Demos

Customer workshops

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Platform Customer Engineer to partner with technical Sales teams, serving as the primary technical partner and trusted advisor. You will engage in technical conversations to understand business challenges, troubleshoot questions, and architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve customer problems.

You will drive the technical win and shape delivery and consumption plans. You will identify, pursue, and win new workloads, penetrating existing ones with breadth across