Minimum qualifications:

　　Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

　　5 years of experience managing and maintaining a production-ready Kubernetes environment, deploying containerized applications, monitoring cluster health, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring continuous uptime and performance.

　　3 years of experience in client-facing projects with cross-functional stakeholders.

　　Experience in software development in Java, Python, Go, or .NET including data structures, algorithms, and software design.

　　Experience managing Windows Server environments, including Active Directory, Group Policy, and system security and optimizing Windows infrastructure.

　　Preferred qualifications:

　　Experience in running virtual machines on Linux with KVM and QEMU, including configuration, resource allocation, and network management.

　　Experience managing and automating Windows OS and applications, configuration, and updates, using tools similar to and including SCCM or Powershell.

　　Experience deploying/operating workloads in non-data center or cloud environments such as retail or warehouse locations.

　　Experience refactoring monolithic applications to microservices, APIs, and/or serverless models.

　　Experience architecting, developing software, or internet scale production-grade solutions in virtualized environments.

　　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.

　　As an Application Modernization Engineer, you will work with customers to transform existing enterprise applications into modern, cloud native applications to reduce time to launch, increase release frequency, reduce time to recovery and failure rate. You will propose and execute, including code development, approaches to modernize Google’s customer’s applications and deploy them to Google Cloud Platform. You will work with customers on application re-design and implementation including application scaling, reliability in addition to advising on ongoing operations such as application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and more. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and drive excellence in our products.

　　In this role, you will support customer adoption of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, application migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and much more.

　　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.

　　The US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$209,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

　　Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

　　Architect and implement solutions for virtualizing and migrating edge applications and systems onto Kubernetes environments, ensuring integration, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.

　　Guide customers through the transformation of their monolithic edge applications to leverage the agility and scalability of container-based technologies.

　　Advise edge customers (i.e., retail) on integrating a new Kubernetes-based system with their existing network, computing, and security infrastructure at the edge.

　　Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex software development challenges.

　　Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.

　　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.