Cloud Consultant, Platforms and Infrastructure, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
  
• Experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g. servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
  
• Experience in one or more of the following: Networking, Developer Operations, Security, Compute, Storage, Hadoop, Kubernetes, or SRE.
• Ability to communicate in English and Spanish fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

Cloud certification with experience with Kubernetes, GKE, or EKS.

Experience with networking and system design of load balancers, firewalls, and VPN in architecting, developing and maintaining production-grade systems.

Experience in one or more of the following disciplines: software development, managing Linux environments, network design and deployment, databases, storage systems.

Experience with customer-facing migration, service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.

Excellent communication, writing, presentation, and problem solving skills.

About the job

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 Platforms and Infrastructure Cloud Consultant, you will work with customers on infrastructure projects that transform business. You will provide consulting, program management, and technical knowledge on customer engagements, while working with client executives and key technical leaders to deploy solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. You will also work with key Google partners to deliver joint consulting services, providing technical guidance and infrastructure best practices.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver implementations of cloud solutions.
  
• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud based distributed virtualized infrastructure solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices.
• 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 for client outcomes.
  
• Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.