Customer Engineer, Platform, Google Cloud

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sydney NSW, Australia; Docklands VIC, Australia.Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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 with presenting to technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, engagement testing).
• Experience with selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, security.
• Experience with managing the business cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
• Experience with building technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
• Experience with migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.

About The Job

As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to the customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business tests. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use the expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business tests. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use the acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and present 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, etc. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and technical engagement to show 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 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

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting sales motions.
• Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to show the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through demos, pilots and workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define delivery plans for customers. Lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.

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