Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
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  5 years of experience in container-based application development as it relates to integration/deployment, developer operations, infrastructure as code, and architecting with cloud native technology.
  
  
• 2 years of experience with development, scaling, and managing Kubernetes clusters.
• 2 years of experience developing CI/CD pipelines and integrating them with Kubernetes.
• Ability to communicate in Arabic fluently to communicate with local customers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field.
• 2 years of experience as a lead architect/engineer to develop system architecture with cloud native technologies for medium to large systems.

Experience as a technology consultant, technical architect, enterprise architect, technical sales engineer, or solutions architect.

Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, etc.).

Business level communication skills in English to communicate with internal stakeholders.

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 partner with technical Sales teams as an enterprise hybrid cloud subject matter expert to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. In this role, 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. You'll engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

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.

Responsibilities

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  Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
  
  
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  Provide in-depth enterprise infrastructure/cloud modernization expertise to support the technical relationship with Google's customers, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
  
  
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  Guide customers through assessments of their existing legacy application environments, provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify applications for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models.
  
  
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  Structure and execute prototyping workshops to prove out proposed architectures, developing best practices, and documenting key blocking requirements for prioritization with engineering.
  
  
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  Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.