Minimum qualifications:

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

• 8 years of experience in networking technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, VPN, VLAN, Peering, Load-Balancing, Firewall, DHCP, ICMP, NAT, CDN, DNS).

• 5 years of experience reading or debugging code in any of the following (e.g., Java, C, C++, .NET, Python, Shell, Perl, or JavaScript).

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications in CCNP, CCIE, CKA, RHCE.

• Experience using techniques such as packet-capture/packet-analysis, load testing, and traffic-path analysis to troubleshoot network-latency, packet-loss and performance issues.

• Experience implementing, administering, and troubleshooting network infrastructure devices.

• Experience with any of these cloud solutions such as Open source software communities, Cloud networking solutions, distributed-computing technology, hybrid/multi cloud connectivity.

• Knowledge of virtual/container networking, web technologies, HTTP/HTTPS, network administrator level Linux/Unix or Windows.

• Ability to work in shifts.

The Google Cloud team helps companies, schools, and government seamlessly make the switch to Google products and supports them along the way. You listen to the customer and swiftly problem-solve technical issues to show how our products can make businesses more productive, collaborative, and innovative. You work closely with a cross-functional team of web developers and systems administrators, not to mention a variety of both regional and international customers. Your relationships with customers are crucial in helping Google grow its Cloud business and helping companies around the world innovate.

In this role, you will be a part of a Global team that provides support to help customers seamlessly switch to Google Cloud. You will troubleshoot technical issues for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, documentation updating, and coding/scripting. You will make our products easier to adopt and to use by making improvements to the product, tools, processes, and documentation. You'll help drive business growth of Google Cloud by recognizing and advocating for our customer issues.

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.

• Manage the customers issues through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity for customer issues on Google Cloud Platform products.

• Develop knowledge of Google's product technology and underlying architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the root cause for customer reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.

• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in engineering, sales, and customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud.

• Understand customer issues and advocate for their needs with cross-functional teams including Product and Engineering teams to find ways to improve the product, and drive high-quality production.

• Work as part of a team of Engineers/Consultants that globally ensure 24 hour customer support. This will include to work non-standard hours/shifts as needed.

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.