Customer Engineering Manager, Security, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with leadership (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience with technical conversations, demos, prototyping, or workshops with customers.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience leading pre-sales or technical consulting teams, with a track record of hitting regional business goals and coaching talent.
• Experience working with sales and sales operations.
• Experience collaborating with product management to influence roadmaps based on field feedback.
• Knowledge of SecOps (SIEM/Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)), threat intelligence, Cloud Security and Mandiant consulting services.
• Knowledge of AI-driven defense (Gemini), agentic SOC.
• Ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into business risk for CISOs and CTOs.
  
  

About The Job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Customer Engineering (CE) Manager, you will lead and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working alongside our customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical blockers. You will foster a culture of technical ownership and understand the mechanics of architecture, delivery, and consumption across the Google Cloud portfolio.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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

• Lead a high-impact team of technical architects who serve as the frontline defenders of customer trust. Recruit, coach, inspire your team.
• Demonstrate how Google’s security including AI-powered threat detection solves the most daunting cyber challenges. Cultivate a group of trusted advisors who move customers from a state of reactive fear to proactive resilience.
• Collaborate with sales leadership to hit business goals, remove technical blockers.
• Act as a critical feedback channel, translating boots-on-the-ground customer challenges into actionable insights for Google’s Product and Engineering teams.
• Serve as the technical Google Cloud Security during high-stakes negotiations and architectural reviews with CISOs and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs).
  
  

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