Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying cloud-based solution architectures.
• Experience in writing software in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, C++, etc.).
• Experience communicating technical concepts to audiences.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with and managing external partners/customers.
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, DevOps, and/or continuous integration/delivery.
• In depth knowledge of mobile edge technology (5G, NFV).
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Knowledge of latency sensitive edge applications (e.g., media, gaming, HCLS, autonomous vehicle control).
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.

About the job

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for Edge and Distributed Computing, you will work directly with Google’s most strategic customers on critical projects to help transform businesses and deliver industry solutions. As a Cloud Engineer, you will engage with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators, Developers, and Telecom Operators around the globe and provide deep technical expertise to help customers and partners design, architect, and implement transformational Edge use cases and solutions. You will also work with technology executives to leverage the Google Cloud Platform to accelerate the benefits from Edge and Distributed Cloud.

You will provide technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform services. You'll provide best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more. Additionally, you'll also guide customers on their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) use, while ensuring they have the best experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Travel 30% of the time as needed.
• Recommend and develop integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud. 
• Work with customers to design cloud based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.
• Work with Google’s customers and provide support to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments.
• Be a technical advisor and perform troubleshooting to resolve technical challenges for customers. Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.