Cloud Consultant, Application Modernization Edge, Professional Services

Job Description

About Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team helps businesses thrive by guiding them through their cloud journey. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

About the Job

As an Application Modernization Consultant, you will work with Google’s most strategic Cloud customers to transform their existing enterprise applications into modern, cloud native applications. This means helping them reduce time to launch, increase release frequency, reduce time to recovery, and decrease failure rate. You will advise customers on application re-design and implementation, including:

• Application scaling: ensuring applications can handle increasing user traffic and data volumes.
• Reliability: ensuring applications are consistently available and perform as expected.
• Ongoing operations: assisting with application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and other crucial aspects of maintaining a successful cloud-based application.

You will provide consulting, technical expertise, and program management to customers while working with client executives and key technical leaders to drive adoption of modern application patterns and paradigms via Google’s Cloud Platform.

You will possess a broad skill set including:

• Architecture design: creating the blueprint for how the application will be built and deployed.
• Distributed systems: understanding how to design and manage applications that run across multiple computers.
• Container technologies: expertise in tools like Docker and Kubernetes to package and run applications in a standardized way.
• Deployment strategies: knowledge of how to move applications from development to production environments.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Be able to navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems.
• Have a passion for both technical solutions and client interaction.
• Possess excellent communication and project management skills.

You will travel up to 30% of the time, and work is primarily virtual.

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.

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $118,000-$174,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to design, deliver, and manage cutting-edge applications on Kubernetes environments, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Develop tailored strategies and migrate legacy applications to scalable, container-based architectures.
• Guide clients in decomposing monolithic applications, enabling them to harness flexibility and agility of container technologies.
• Partner with sales, partners, and technical stakeholders to manage project scope, timelines, and deliverables, ensuring optimal client outcomes.
• Advocate for customer requirements to address adoption barriers and influence new feature development.