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About Google Cloud Platform
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 developed 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.
About the Role
In this role, you will support the Migrate, Modernize, Build (MMB) program on large and complex migrations, especially of enterprise workloads including technologies like VMware, Oracle, and SAP with a team of experienced specialists as a single entry point. 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
- Design the target architecture and the migration strategy of enterprise workloads including VMware technology.
- Interact with customer stakeholders and challenge the status quo proposing innovative and differentiating solutions to maximize customer value.
- Involve Google Cloud Consulting (GCC) or a partner with specific VMware skills to get to a detailed migration plan and effort estimation.
- Work with the account team to size the target architecture as well as the migration costs, considering all costs like software licensing and network traffic and security, in order to support the TCO/ROI estimation.
- Support the account teams or the migration and transformation architects on the solution design with the target architecture including VMware sourced workloads, and the detailed project planning and estimation.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in data center offloading leading to cloud migrations of enterprise workloads including VMs and Containers, VMware clusters, and Oracle technology and applications.
- 10 years of experience designing and proposing a migration strategy using both Google Cloud differentiators and other cloud providers.
- Ability to communicate in English and German, French or Italian fluently in order to communicate in this customer-facing sales role.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with VMware technology and licensing, including participant positioning on migrations against other cloud providers.
- Experience with estimating all the costs for building TCO/ROI business cases.
- Knowledge of migration tools, strategy and best practices, including both generic migration tools like migration center and specialized tools like VMware and vMotion.
- Knowledge of key migration aspects like security, compliance, governance and operations.
Equal Opportunity Statement
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.
Key skills/competency
- Migrations Specialist
- Cloud Migration
- VMware
- Oracle
- SAP
- Data Center Offloading
- Google Cloud Platform
- Enterprise Workloads
- TCO/ROI
- Migration Strategy
How to Get Hired at Google
- Tailor your resume: Highlight 10+ years of experience in data center offloading, cloud migrations, and specific technologies like VMware, Oracle, and SAP. Emphasize your multilingual abilities (English plus German, French, or Italian) for this customer-facing role.
- Showcase migration strategy expertise: Detail your experience in designing migration strategies, including using Google Cloud and other providers. Include your knowledge of migration tools, best practices, security, and governance.
- Quantify your impact: Provide examples of successful TCO/ROI business case estimations and cost analysis for large-scale migrations.
- Prepare for technical and behavioral questions: Be ready to discuss your approach to designing target architectures, managing customer stakeholders, and collaborating with internal teams and partners.
- Demonstrate language proficiency: Be prepared to showcase your fluency in English and at least one of German, French, or Italian during the interview process.
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