Overview
As a Platform Customer Engineer, you partner with technical sales to differentiate Google Cloud for customers. You drive technical conversations, architect cross-domain cloud solutions, and lead engaging demos, pilots, and workshops to prove value. You oversee delivery planning and ensure a smooth post-sales transition to implementation teams. You collaborate across teams to support ramp, delivery, migration, and deployment efforts, helping customers scale their cloud journeys. This role combines technical depth with strategic storytelling to drive new workloads and customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, aligning with sales motions
- Demonstrate value of Google Cloud via complex demos, pilots, and workshops
- Architect cross-pillar solutions and drive technical wins; define initial delivery plans
- Lead technical engagement in the solution phase and coordinate post-sales pricing activities
- Transition final delivery plans to implementation teams and monitor progress against delivery plans
- Support cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration, and implementation phases
Key requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role
- Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization
- Experience engaging with or presenting to technical stakeholders or executive leaders
- Experience working with startup/scaleup
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops
- stakeholder engagement
- clear communication
- presentation and storytelling
- cloud native architecture
- cloud engineering
- virtualization
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