Cloud Customer Engineer, Data Management, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture, including database administration and solutions in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Experience architecting solutions for data transformation, migration, governance strategies, high availability, or disaster recovery.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with data migration strategies and moving large-scale production systems either on-premise/data center environments or migration to cloud scenarios.
• Experience with optimizing database performance with respect to transactional and/or analytic workloads.
• Experience in understanding a complex customer's existing software workloads, and the ability to define a technical migration roadmap to the Cloud reflecting specific customer needs.
• SQL skills with deep query troubleshooting knowledge.
• Expertise in Disaster Recovery (DR) and data backup strategies.

About the job

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 technical Sales teams as a data management subject matter expert to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business challenges, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks related to database, application migrations, and data back ends for new application development. You'll engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

In this role, you will be a part of a diverse team of fellow Googlers working in an environment of respect and inclusion where we promote equal opportunities to succeed.

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 $118,000-$177,000 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. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Share in-depth storage and database expertise to support the technical relationship with Google's customers, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination and prioritization of solutions impacting customer adoption of Google Cloud.
• Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.