Customer Engineer, UK/IE Startups, Google Cloud

Job description

Minimum qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 4 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role. Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms. Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders. Experience working with startup/scaleup. Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.

Preferred qualifications

Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: Infrastructure Modernization, Application Modernization, Data Management, Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Networking, Migrations, Security. Experience driving the entire sales cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution). Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.

Experience working with, and passion for, the startup ecosystem. Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms. About the job As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business challenges.

You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads.

You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, and more. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio. 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.