Join Google Cloud as a Platform Customer Engineer and play a pivotal role in empowering leading companies, educational institutions, and government agencies to leverage the full potential of cloud computing. This role is instrumental in making our clients' work more productive, mobile, and collaborative.

You will serve as the primary technical partner and trusted advisor to customers, delving into their business challenges through technical discussions. Your expertise will be crucial in troubleshooting, conducting proofs-of-concept, delivering impactful demos, and architecting comprehensive cloud solutions.

This position offers the opportunity to drive technical wins, define delivery and consumption plans, and engage with both technical and business leaders. You'll utilize your business acumen and presentation skills to showcase Google Cloud's value proposition, while collaborating with product marketing and engineering teams to stay ahead of industry trends and enhance our offerings.

Develop and execute comprehensive technical account plans and strategies, actively participating in targeted business initiatives.

Leverage combined expertise in sales, programming, and solutions architecture to demonstrate the value of Google Cloud Platform through compelling demos, pilot programs, and interactive workshops.

Architect innovative, cross-pillar solutions, secure technical wins, and establish initial delivery blueprints for clients. Continue to lead technical engagements throughout the solution phase.

Facilitate a seamless post-sales transition by supporting pricing strategies and handing off the finalized delivery plan to implementation teams.

Monitor progress against delivery plans, providing essential support to cross-functional teams during ramp-up, delivery, migration, and implementation phases.

A Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.

Possess a minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud-native architecture, ideally within customer-facing or support capacities.

Demonstrate experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.

Proven ability to engage with and present to technical stakeholders or executive leadership.

Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, delivering demos, or conducting customer workshops is essential.