Strategic Cloud Engineer, Public Sector
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In-office locations: Reston, VA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.
Remote location(s): North Carolina, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in the system, design troubleshooting, advocating for customers' needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
- Experience reading code in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, Go, JavaScript) or in system design.
- Experience with security combined with Linux/Unix or Windows systems, from the kernel to the shell, file systems, and client-server protocols.
- Active or the ability to obtain Top Secret security clearance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience of Google Cloud Platform deploying and securing services.
- Knowledge of encryption and cryptography, including post-quantum cryptography.
- Understanding security protocols, data privacy, and how to maintain the security of Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiarity with general cloud computing concepts and the Google Cloud ecosystem.
- Excellent skills in architecting and configuring hierarchical key management solutions.
About the job
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.
A Strategic Cloud Engineer (SCE is pronounced "Ski") is a Google Engineer working with Google's most critical Cloud customers.
As a SCE, you will support customer implementation of Google Cloud Platform through: architecture creation, solution development, software engineering, integration and much more. You will advocate on behalf of our customers internally to improve our products and our customers' journey in GCP.
Responsibilities
- Build solutions, translating customer business requirements into secure, and performance solution architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Lead end-to-end solutions by designing and implementing integration patterns connecting GCP services with third-party products, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, and on-premises systems.
- Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules using tools like Terraform to ensure the automated, repeatable, and consistent deployment of cloud solutions.
- Create code and scripts to build Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automate operational tasks, and create custom software components needed to "glue" services together.
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