Cloud Platforms and Infrastructure Engineer, Google Cloud - Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience automating infrastructure provisioning, DevOps, continuous integration or delivery.
• 9 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python)
• 9 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP)
• 7 years of experience managing customer projects to completion or working with cross-functional teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), techniques such as prompt engineering, dual encoders, embedding vectors, and their implementation within GenAI systems.
• Experience managing and working with external partners/customers.
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate, and key management.

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team helps customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers and software infrastructure. As part of this team, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Cloud Partner and Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide exceptional technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. This includes providing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more. You will also provide prescriptive guidance in ensuring that customers receive the best of what Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can offer and have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$257,000 + 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain expertise in cloud platforms and infrastructure; solving complex cloud platform challenges.
• Work with customers to design and implement Cloud based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.
• Be a technical advisor and perform troubleshooting to resolve technical challenges for customers.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.
• Travel 30% of the time as required.