Cloud Consultant, Google Cloud Consulting

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
• Experience with data center facilities (e.g., power, cooling, space), networking, compute infrastructure (e.g., servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Data Center Facility management, Networking, Security, Compute, Storage, or Kubernetes.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field.
• Certification in Cloud with experience in Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or EKS.
• Experience in one or more of the following disciplines: Data Center Design, buildout or Facility management with managing Linux or other operating system environments, network design and deployment, databases, storage systems.
• Experience with networking and system design of load balancers, firewalls, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) in architecting, developing and maintaining production-grade systems.
• Experience with customer-facing migration including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem solving skills.

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

In the role, you will work with Google’s customers on projects that transform their business. You will provide consulting, program management, and technical expertise on customer engagements, while working with client executives and technical leaders to deploy solutions on Google Cloud Platform.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

• Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver implementations of cloud solutions. Become a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.
• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of on-premise and cloud based distributed infrastructure solutions according to customer requirements, and implementation best practices.
• Work with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
• Interact with Business, Partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
• Travel up to 50% to 75% for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities as required.