Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3 years of experience troubleshooting and advocating for customers' needs, triaging technical issues, or software development.

• Experience creating content for technical audiences (e.g., developer documentation, industry white papers, Computer Science course material, or IT administration playbooks).

• Experience writing, reading, and debugging code in one of the following: Java, C, C++, Python, or Go.

• Experience working with distributed systems, and experience in distributed systems solutions, design patterns, or best practices.

• Experience with web technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML, DNS, TCP).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in crisis response/escalation management across multiple teams, with the ability to influence momentum of incident response for critical customer issues.
• Experience working with public cloud services and infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience developing developer tools (e.g., automation, testing, debugging).
• Experience using techniques such as packet capture/packet analysis, artificial packet creation, load testing, and traffic path analysis to troubleshoot network latency, packet loss, and other performance issues at the packet level.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (e.g., Load Balancing, Cloud Storage, Peering, TCP\IP, etc.).
• Understanding of Linux or Unix systems at a System/network administrator level.

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.

Our Mission Critical Services Solutions developers own our large and important customer issues in addition to proactively help improve customer experiences.

In this role, you will be a part of a global team that provides 24x7 support to critical customer workloads deployed on Google Cloud. You will provide high-touch, response support for our most critical customers with environments, proactively owning end-to-end incident management to mitigate or resolve their most critical issues, and drive continuous improvements to improve workload reliability for the customers. The Mission Critical Services team’s focus on incident response, proactive solutions, and customer-centric supportability that helps avoid issues, and improve the resiliency of customer mission-critical environments deployed on GCP. You will troubleshoot and mitigate technical problems for customers with debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and when needed, coding/scripting. You contribute to product adoption and reliability by making improvements to the product, tools, processes and documentation.

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 customers on their production deployments to resolve issues and achieve product readiness and availability. Triage and handle technical escalations, including platform outages, technical issues, and executive concerns.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of Google Cloud's product technology and architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues, building tools, and diagnosis.
• Act as consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in developing, sales, customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.
• Understand customer issues, advocate for their needs with internal teams, including product and developing teams, to find ways to improve the product, and drive production.
• Work as part of a team that globally ensure 24-hour customer support. This will include a need to sometimes work non-standard work hours/shifts, and may include weekend work.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.