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Strategic Cloud Engineer, Appdev (English)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Job Description
As an Application Modernization Engineer, you will work with customers to transform existing enterprise applications into modern, cloud native applications to reduce time to launch, increase release frequency, reduce time to recovery and failure rate. You will propose and execute, including code development, approaches to modernize Google’s customer’s applications and deploy them to Google Cloud Platform. You will work with customers on application re-design and implementation, including application scaling and reliability. You will also advise on ongoing operations such as application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and more. You will work closely with product management and product engineering to build and drive excellence in our products. You will work with Google's most strategic Cloud customers. You will support customer adoption of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, application migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and much more.
Responsibilities
- Deliver modern software to Google’s customers, including creating and executing enterprise application transformation and migration strategies.
- Recommend approaches and estimated effort for application migration and modernization programs.
- Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.
- Travel up to 30% for in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.
- Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex software development challenges.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience coding in one or more general purpose languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C or C++).
- Experience designing cloud enterprise solutions and supporting customer projects to completion.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently to collaborate efficiently with local customers.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience refactoring monolithic applications to microservices, Application Programming Interface (APIs), or serverless models.
- Experience architecting, developing software, or internet scale production-grade cloud solutions in virtualized environments such as Google Cloud Platform or other public clouds.
- Experience leading application modernization or application architecture projects.
- Experience with data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Experience with unit or automated testing tools.