Cloud Platforms and Infrastructure Consultant, Google Cloud

Job description / Role

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.

As a Cloud Platforms and Infrastructure Consultant, you will work directly with Google's strategic customers on critical projects to help them transform their businesses. You will provide management, consulting, and technical aptitude to customer engagements while working with client executives and key technical leaders to deploy solutions via Google's Cloud Platform. You will also work closely with key Google partners, servicing accounts to manage programs, deliver consulting services, and provide technical guidance and best practice expertise.

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 customers to help shape a program of work to meet their business requirements and outcomes with Google consulting services.
- Interact with sales/partner leads and technical stakeholders to translate complex customer requirements into recommendations for appropriate solutions and consulting services.
- Execute on project management responsibilities inclusive of scoping activities, structuring a team, and delivering in a timeline during consulting engagement.
- Work closely with geographically dispersed internal teams, product, and engineering to package best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
- Understand customer needs and help shape Google's long-term product strategy and share your knowledge and skills to grow the team.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in managing executive-level relationships and stakeholder landscape, creating end-to-end solution architecture.
- Experience in leading cloud transformations, including customer-facing migration, program management, service discovery, assessment, planning, execution and operations.
- Experience with architecture, developing, and maintaining technical solutions in virtualization or cloud environments.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience working with channel partners, systems integrator, and third-party developers to deliver successful solutions.
- Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, etc.).
- Experience with reading software code in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Javascript, or Python).
- Experience in deploying distributed data processing systems in one or more of the following: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience in systems design with an ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and methods available.
- Ability to communicate in English and Arabic fluently for interactions with local stakeholders.

About the Company

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.