Customer Engineer, Application Modernization

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a sales engineering or customer-facing role.
• Experience with cloud native architectures in a customer-facing or support role, engaging with C-level or executive business leaders.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and applying cloud native development methodologies and tools including container technology.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with modern software development lifecycle methodologies and tools including CI/CD, container orchestration, and operations.
• Experience with networking concepts including: software-defined networking, routing, virtual private networks, load balancers, firewalls, logging and monitoring of hybrid-cloud workloads.
• Experience with CCAI and developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, and PaaS.
• Experience in operations with virtualization deployments.
• Knowledge of web application security, service mesh, and mobile security strategies.
• Ability to understand a complex customer's existing software workloads and define a technical migration roadmap to the cloud reflecting specific customer needs.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Customer Engineer, you will engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.

Additional Information:

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $118,000-$177,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. 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 to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Provide in-depth enterprise infrastructure/cloud modernization expertise to support the technical relationship with Google's customers, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partner directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
• Guide customers through assessments of their existing legacy application environments, provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify applications for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.
• Structure and execute prototyping workshops to prove out proposed new architectures, develop best practices, and document key blocking requirements for prioritization with engineering.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.