{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8da656d60f3b2857b1b7add7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8da656d60f3b2857b1b7add7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8da656d60f3b2857b1b7add7","title":"Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist, Google Cloud","description":"Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.\n\nThis posting is for a new vacancy.\nNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Atlanta, GA, USA; Toronto, ON, Canada; Chicago, IL, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Miami, FL, USA; Austin, TX, USA.\nMinimum qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.\n\n6 years of experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g. servers,\ndatabases, firewalls, load balancers) and architecting, developing, or\nmaintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.\n6 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.\nExperience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C or C++) including data structures, algorithms, and software design.\nAbility to travel up to 30% of the time, as required, for client\nengagements.\n\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience with one or more third-party networking products (e.g., PANW, Fortinet, VMWare Cloud Foundation).\nExperience in scalable networking design, including high availability, redundancy, failover, and load balancing.\nExperience troubleshooting networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/S), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).\nExperience in customer-facing migration, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.\nKnowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).\nFamiliarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.\nAbout the job\nThe 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.\n\nAs a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist, the role provides technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. This includes sharing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated infrastructure and application provisioning, and cloud-ready architectures. The role also provides prescriptive guidance to ensure customers maximize the value of GCP throughout migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications, while collaborating closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive product excellence.\n\nGoogle 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.\n\nIndividual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.\n\nUS: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits\nCanada: $170000 - $174000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits\n\nLearn more about benefits at Google.\nResponsibilities\nPropose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud networking solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices.\nWork with customers to design and implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.\nWork with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.\nInteract with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.\nGoogle is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. 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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.\n\nAs a Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Specialist, the role provides technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. This includes sharing best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated infrastructure and application provisioning, and cloud-ready architectures. The role also provides prescriptive guidance to ensure customers maximize the value of GCP throughout migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications, while collaborating closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive product excellence.\n\nGoogle 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.\n\nIndividual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.\n\nUS: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits\nCanada: $170000 - $174000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits\n\nLearn more about benefits at Google.\nResponsibilities\nPropose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud networking solutions according to customer requirements and implementation best practices.\nWork with customers to design and implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.\nWork with internal specialists, product, and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.\nInteract with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.\nGoogle is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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