{"title": "Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud", "level": "Advanced", "location": "Boulder, CO, USA", "description": "When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products. As a Customer Engineer, you will work with the sales team to introduce Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective, existing customers, and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business issues, and problem-solve any potential technical roadblocks. Google Cloud accelerates every organization\u2019s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google\u2019s 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.", "salary": "$142,000-$214,000 + bonus + equity + benefits", "key_qualifications": "Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 10 years of experience serving in the capacity of a pre-sales engineer at an enterprise technology company, or equivalent experience in a similar customer facing role (e.g., within a professional services, solutions architect, or systems engineering team). Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders and experience with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space. Experience with legacy and modern application development, cloud service delivery, and deployment and experience with containers (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and associated technologies (e.g., Istio, Envoy).", "preferred_qualifications": "Master's degree in Computer Science or other relevant technical field. Experience with cloud-native software development methodologies and tools within application development/deployment stages including CI/CD (i.e., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Concourse). Experience in networking, virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration, VPNs and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies, routing and firewalls, and logging and monitoring of hybrid-cloud workloads. Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks, PaaS, container orchestration systems, or other applicable platforms (e.g., Knative) and large-scale VMware (i.e. 6.5+) deployments. Ability to address application security patterns including web application security, service mesh, and mobile security.", "responsibilities": "Work with the team 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\u2019s 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 environment(s), 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, developing best practices, and documenting key blocking requirements for prioritization with engineering. Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.", "company": "google"}