Sales Engineer, Data Management, Google Cloud

Job Description

Note: By applying to this position your application is automatically submitted to the following locations: Toronto, ON, Canada; Montreal, QC, Canada

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment or customer-facing role.
• Experience with SQL, database technologies, administration techniques, management tools, and performance tuning.
• Experience with data migration strategies, moving production systems, and cloud and data center network topologies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• 4 years of experience in technical sales or professional consulting in the fields of systems integration, large scale data transfer/management, and enterprise database performance.
• Experience in disaster recovery and data backup strategies. Experience in enterprise security and cloud identity.
• Experience optimizing database performance with respect to transactional and/or analytic workloads.
• Ability quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
• Ability to deliver technical pitches with excellent presentation skills.

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 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.

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 businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.
As a Sales Engineer, you will work hand-in-hand with technical Sales teams as an enterprise database subject matter expert to differentiate and paint the vision of Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, explaining technical features, helping customers design architectures, engaging in proof of concepts, and troubleshooting potential roadblocks related to database/app migration and data back ends for new app development. In this role, you will join a diverse team working in an environment of respect and inclusion where we promote equal opportunity.

Google Cloud helps millions of employees and organizations empower their employees, serve their customers, and build what’s next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. And our teams are dedicated to helping our customers & developers see the benefits of our technology come to life.

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.
• Share in-depth storage and database expertise to support the technical relationship with Google’s customers, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination and prioritization of solutions impacting customer adoption of Google Cloud.
• Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Location

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