Customer Engineer, Google Cloud

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

• 10 years of experience in sales engineering roles.
• Experience delivering technical presentations while leading detailed discovery and planning sessions that are aligned jointly with the customer.
• Experience with database technologies and database administration techniques/tools covering in one of the following: availability and disaster recovery, data migrations, or performance optimization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with data migration strategies and moving large-scale production systems either in on-premise/data center environments or migration to cloud scenarios and SQL skills with query troubleshooting.
• Experience addressing a complex customer’s existing software workloads, with the ability to define a technical migration roadmap to the Google Cloud.
• Experience with Relational Databases, NoSQL Databases, and/or Big Data technologies and containers.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery (DR) and data backup strategies.
• Experience with optimizing database performance with respect to transactional and/or analytic workloads.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

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 work with technical Sales teams as an enterprise hybrid cloud subject matter expert to differentiate and paint the vision of Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, explain technical features, help customers design architectures, engage in proof of concepts, and troubleshoot potential roadblocks.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $139,000-$213,000 + 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

• Manage the technical relationship with Google’s customers, including managing product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of additional technical resources.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud.
• Work to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
• Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations, guide customers through assessments of their existing legacy application environment(s), provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify applications for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.

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