Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with data center networking and cloud networking technologies.
• Experience managing internal or client-facing projects to completion, and troubleshooting technical issues.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in scalable networking design, including high availability, redundancy, failover and load balancing.
• Experience with one or more third-party networking products such as F5, Juniper, Cisco, Splunk, InfoBlox, or Palo Alto Networks.
• Experience troubleshooting networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/S and BGP.
• Understanding of hybrid cloud and/or network security.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps 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 entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of how businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Network Specialist, you'll help customers build out their Google Cloud network infrastructure, guiding them on how to configure and deploy their VPC architecture, hybrid cloud connectivity, load balancing, network security and more. You'll consult with customers on how to best design, deploy and optimize their cloud network for high availability, reliability, performance and scalability in different parts of the world. You will also work hand-in-hand with Google Cloud’s strategic partners to design and perfect end-to-end solutions, while supporting customer‘s migration to Google Cloud and helping them to expand their cloud footprint. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with Product Management and Product Engineering teams to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Networking challenges.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, articles and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.
• Travel regularly (up to 30%) for meetings, technical reviews, and on-site delivery activities.