Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Experience in a customer facing role in an enterprise business and database administration role or a related, and experience delivering technical presentations and live demonstrations of database products.
Experience with NoSQL database technologies, administration, and management tools, performance tuning techniques.
Experience with modern/cloud based application development environments.

Preferred qualifications:
Master's degree in Computer Science or other technical field.

Experience in technical sales or professional consulting in system integration, data transfer/management, and enterprise database performance.
Experience optimising database performance with respect to transactional or analytic workloads, and knowledge of disaster recovery and data backup strategies.

Understanding of cloud-based database architectures and deployments, including knowledge of distributed or big data technologies.

Knowledge of DevOps principles and database automation tools.

Ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

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 listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. 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.

As a Cloud Native Database Customer Engineer for Google Cloud, you'll help our customers to adopt Google Cloud managed database offering. You will work in close partnership within the sales teams by problem-solving key technical challenges for our customers. Additionally, you'll liaise with the Product teams and Engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.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
Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities for databases, understand key customer business and technical issues, and develop the strategy and solution to support their stakes.
Inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions. This includes product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and coordinating technical resources.
Design the target architecture and the migration strategy minimizing the migration effort, risk, and downtime.
Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype the Google Cloud database product portfolio in customer/partner environments, and travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.
Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to complete solutions using best practices on Google Cloud.
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