Technical Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience project managing and delivering technical solutions.
- Experience with architecting, developing, and maintaining technical solutions by leveraging virtual machines, containers (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE), serverless computing, or software defined networking (SDN).
- Experience working in a cloud computing environment (i.e., infrastructure, storage, platforms or data).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with customer-facing migrations, including service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations.
- Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience reading software code in one or more languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, or Python).
- Experience in systems design with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and methods available.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
- Excellent communication, written, presentation and problem-solving skills.
About the job
As a Technical Solutions Consultant, you will be responsible for the technical relationship of our largest advertising clients and/or product partners. You will lead cross-functional teams in Engineering, Sales and Product Management to leverage emerging technologies for our external clients/partners. From concept design and testing to data analysis and support, you will oversee the technical execution and business operations of Google's online advertising platforms and/or product partnerships.
You will be able to balance business and partner needs with technical constraints, develop innovative, cutting edge solutions and act as a partner and consultant to those you are working with. You will also be able to build tools and automate products, oversee the technical execution and business operations of Google's partnerships, as well as develop product strategy and prioritize projects and resources.
As a Technical Solutions Consultant, you will work directly with Google’s most strategic customers on critical application development and modernization projects to help them transform their businesses. You will provide consulting, program management and technical expertise to customers while working with client executives and key technical leaders to drive adoption of modern applications and cloud native products on Google Cloud Platform.
In this role, you will work with customers on application re-design and implementation, including application scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations such as application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and more. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and facilitate excellence in our products.
Responsibilities
- Work with customer development leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful, modern cloud applications; becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.
- Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud native application development solutions according to complex customer requirements and implementation best practices.
- Work with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
- Interact with Sales, Partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
- Travel approximately 30% of the time as needed for client engagements.
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