Platform Customer Engineer, Public Sector, Google Cloud
As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business challenges. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proof-of-concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication and organizational skills. You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads and driving engagement within existing ones. You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
- Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, security.
- Experience driving the entire sales cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
- Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
- Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
- Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, pen testing).
Software pay context
Based on 7,604 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $158K/year, with most offers between $124K and $199K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$235K).
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