Cloud Engineer, Application Modernization

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. As a Cloud Application Modernization Engineer, you will work with customers to assess existing Enterprise applications in anticipation of a cloud migration. You will provide application design expertise, assess and classify applications and application platforms, and propose rewrite approaches to facilitate deployment to cloud native products like Google Kubernetes Engine. You'll work on legacy application re-design and implementation, including application scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations. You'll be the Google engineer working with Google's most strategic Cloud customers, supporting customer application assessment and implementation of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, application migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more. This role requires up to 30% travel.

Responsibilities:

• Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and design and build complex applications.
• Maintain highest levels of development practices, writing clean, modular, and self-sustaining code.
• Work with customers to design technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar.
• 3 years of experience managing projects, troubleshooting technical issues, and working with various teams.
• Experience with internet-facing production-grade applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience refactoring legacy monolithic applications to microservices, APIs, or serverless models.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with open-source server software and automated testing tools.

Join Google Cloud and be part of a team dedicated to helping customers leverage cutting-edge technology to transform their businesses.