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 engineered 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 an Infrastructure Architect, you will guide customers on how to configure and deploy their Google Cloud infrastructure consisting of VM and container orchestration, network architecture, logging, observability, security and more. You will consult with customers on how to best design their cloud applications for optimal scaling including containerization, networking design, load balancer setup, caching, compute optimizations, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, etc. You will directly work with customers to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower them. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.In this role, you are the Google Architect working with Google Cloud's most strategic Enterprise and Digital Native customers. Together with the team, you will support customer implementation of Google Cloud products through: architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, capacity planning, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more. Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems. Responsibilities Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Development Operations challenges. Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders. Travel regularly (where possible, we frequently use video conferencing) in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.Minimum qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience managing customer/client-facing consulting projects to completion and handling technical troubleshooting.Experience in writing scripts in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, etc). Experience in designing and maintaining internet facing production-grade applications in distributed virtualized or containerized environments. Preferred qualifications:Experience with Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes environments and cloud native technologies on major global Cloud platforms. Experience with Cloud networking, including the integration to other environments. Experience with scalable networking technologies (e.g., as Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (e.g., REST APIs, gRPC, web security mechanisms). Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Mesos, OpenStack, Jenkins). Experience in system administration tasks in Linux, Unix, or Windows with familiarity with standard IT security practices (e.g., encryption, certificates, key management).Understanding of open source server software (e.g., NGINX, Envoy, Redis, Elasticsearch).
