Customer Engineer, National Security, SOCOM

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Customer Engineer in the federal public sector space, you will partner with technical Sales teams 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 issues, engage in proofs of concept, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks. You will engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

In this role, you will help us organize America's National Security information and make it privately accessible and useful. The main customer you'll be working with is U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). [Google Public Sector](https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/public-sector/#:~:text=We're%20committed%20to%20advancing,%2C%20research%2C%20and%20edtech%20companies.) brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about [benefits at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Share in-depth enterprise infrastructure modernization expertise to support the technical relationship with customers, including technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partnering directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting customer adoption to Google Cloud.
• Work directly with Google Cloud products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer and partner environments.
• Guide customers through assessments of existing legacy application environment(s) and provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for infrastructure and application modernization.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution on Google Cloud.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying solutions that leverage or integrate generative AI.
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

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 managing 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 with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, pen testing).
• Experience prospecting, building and maintaining customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories.