Cloud Platforms and Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners. As a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. This includes providing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more. You will also provide guidance in ensuring that customers receive the best of what GCP can offer and have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in GCP. Additionally, you will work with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g. servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
- 3 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
- Experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C or C++) including data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Ability to travel 30% of the time, as needed, for client engagements.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with one or more third-party networking products (e.g.,PANW, Fortinet, VMWare Cloud Foundation).
- Experience in networking design, including redundancy, fail over, and load balancing.
- Experience troubleshooting networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/S), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
- Experience in customer-facing migration, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.
- Experience with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.
- Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Responsibilities
- Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud networking solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices.
- Work with customers to design and implement Cloud based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.
- Work with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
- Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines.
- Travel up to 30% for in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
