**Minimum qualifications**:- 5 years of experience as a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment or customer-facing role (e.g., professional services or systems engineering).- Experience architecting solutions with cloud computing technologies, sizing and costing for cloud solutions.- Experience with a cloud computing technology stack.**Preferred qualifications**:- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.- Experience as an IT infrastructure consultant or enterprise architect working in data center investment strategies and proposals.- Experience with deployment methodologies and technologies (CI/CD, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).**About the job**:When leading companies choose Google Cloud it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.As a Customer Engineer specialized in VMware, you'll contribute experience and thought leadership to support Google Cloud Sales teams, and drive goal, mission, and strategy around VMware solutions. You'll meet with customers to facilitate business transformation, map success patterns, and publish assets to scale your knowledge and support further customer successes.- In this role, you'll identify and parse industry trends that focus on VMware to recommend, plan for, and address core market opportunities with new solutions and use cases for positioning to customers. Finally, you will enable the Sales team and counsel partners on the best way to position VMware on Google Cloud solutions, explain technical features, and problem-solve potential roadblocks on Google Cloud.Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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**:- Contribute to the technical evaluation process with Google's customers for VMware-as-a-Service (VMware-aaS) technical business cycles, managing product/solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of technical resources.- Recommend, demonstrate, and prototype VMware-aaS on GCP solutions in customer environments, using best practices for VMware-aaS on Google Cloud.- Assist the VMware-aaS Go-to-Market (GTM) team with regional delivery of field-enablement for VMware-aaS on GCP solutions.- Assist the Infrastructure Modernization Solutions management team, contributing to solution and use case specific assets. Travel up to 50% of the time to customer sites, conferences, marketing events, and other VMware ecosystem related events.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.
