Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
- Experience in networking, compute infrastructure (e.g., servers, databases, firewalls, or load balancers), and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in virtualized environments.
- Experience in one or more of the following: networking, DevOps, security, compute, storage, Hadoop, Kubernetes, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Ability to travel 30% of the time, as needed, for client engagements.
- Ability to communicate in English and Arabic fluently to support client relationship in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Certification in Cloud.
- Experience in customer-facing migration (e.g., service discovery, assessment, planning, execution, and operations), and with Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
- Experience in one or more of the following disciplines: software development, managing Windows or Linux environments, network design and deployment, databases, or storage systems.
- Experience with networking and system design of load balancers, firewalls, and VPN in architecting, developing, and maintaining production-grade systems.
- Excellent communication, writing, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
About The Job
The Google Cloud team helps companies, schools, and government seamlessly make the switch to Google products and supports them along the way. You listen to the customer and swiftly problem-solve technical issues to show how our products can make businesses more productive, collaborative, and innovative. You work closely with a cross-functional team of web developers and systems administrators, not to mention a variety of both regional and international customers. Your relationships with customers are crucial in helping Google grow its Cloud business and helping companies around the world innovate.
As an Infrastructure Cloud Consultant, you will work directly with Google's customers on infrastructure projects that transform business. You will provide consulting, program management, and technical expertise on customer engagements while working with client executives and key technical leaders to deploy solutions on Google Cloud Platform. You will also work closely with key Google partners to deliver joint consulting services, providing technical guidance and infrastructure best practices.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful implementations of cloud solutions, becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.
- Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud-based, distributed, virtualized infrastructure solutions according to 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.
- Manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
