Google Looking For Infrastructure Engineer, Google Cloud at Kirkland, WA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, developer operations, or continuous integration/delivery, designing, building, and deploying of cloud-based solution architectures.

Experience with physical/virtual infrastructure (e.g., servers, storage, and networking), operating systems, or virtualization (e.g., Kubernetes).

Top Secret US Government Security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience implementing projects in a change-oriented, fast-paced environment to meet demands and deadlines.

Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups, deal with ambiguity, and thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

Ability to work on a team to design processes, implement strategic projects that solve business problems, and lead/work effectively with cross-functional groups.

Ability to execute in a customer-focused environment and advocate for partners and customers in a cross-functional organization.

About the job

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will help our customers and partners deploy, configure, manage, monitor, and automate their data center infrastructure, including hardware, OS, virtualization layer, networking, storage, and surrounding automation and developer operations systems. You’ll manage the uptime, performance, resources, and security of the data center infrastructure from requirements to operations by ensuring that the entire life cycle of the infrastructure is executed in a programmatic and continuous manner.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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

Recommend and develop integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and operations models required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Distributed Cloud Hosted.

Lead cross-functional projects and teams by working with technical stakeholders across the organization to develop and deliver sustainable infrastructure operations, with increasing levels of automation, resiliency, and security.

Identify gaps and propose changes to existing policy, systems, technical, and operations process frameworks. Develop scalable solutions, work to manage risks across the organization, and develop best practices that are beneficial across the organization.

Act as a technical advisor and an escalation point for troubleshooting to resolve technical challenges for customers.

Drive recommendations to executive leadership at all stages of organizational development and execution. Create and deliver best practices, recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and sample code.

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