Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer, Compute

About the Job

The Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer, Compute at Google Cloud Platform helps customers transform and build what's next for their business, all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability, and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. 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 helping shape the future of how businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Technical Solutions Engineer, you will own our large and important customer issues in addition to providing level two support to our other support teams. You will be a part of a global team that provides 24/7 support to help customers seamlessly make the switch to Google Cloud. In this role, you will troubleshoot technical problems for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and, when needed, coding/scripting. You will make our products easier to adopt and use by making improvements to the product, tools, processes, and documentation. Our Technical Solutions team is driven by customers, and you will help drive the success of Google Cloud by understanding and advocating for our customers' issues.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in troubleshooting and advocating for customer needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
• 2 years of experience with computer networking and web technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML, DNS, etc.).
• Experience in system administration with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with one or more core programming or scripting languages (e.g., C, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash/Shell, Perl, Visual Basic).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud Accelerators troubleshooting (e.g., GPU, TPU, etc.).
• Experience with cloud computing (e.g., certifications, internships, coursework, etc.).
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience with any of the following solutions: System virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing.
• Familiarity with common solutions, design patterns, or best practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage the customer’s problem through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity for customer issues on Google Cloud Platform products.
• Develop an understanding of Google's product technology and underlying architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the root cause for customer reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in Engineering, Sales, and customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.
• Work closely with multiple Product and Engineering teams to find ways to improve the product. Understand customer issues and advocate for their needs with cross-functional teams.

Key skills/competency

• Technical Troubleshooting
• Customer Advocacy
• Linux/Unix System Administration
• Networking Protocols
• Programming/Scripting (Python, Java, Bash)
• Google Cloud Platform
• Root Cause Analysis
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Accelerators
• Problem Diagnosis