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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy; London, UK.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in data center offloading leading to cloud migrations of enterprise workloads including VMs and Containers, VMware clusters, and Oracle technology and applications.
- 10 years of experience designing and proposing a migration strategy using both Google Cloud differentiators and other cloud providers.
- Ability to communicate in English and German, French or Italian fluently in order to communicate in this customer-facing sales role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with VMware technology and licensing, including participant positioning on migrations against other cloud providers.
- Experience with estimating all the costs for building TCO/ROI business
cases.
- Knowledge of migration tools, strategy and best practices, including both generic migration tools like migration center and specialized tools like VMware and vMotion.
- Knowledge of key migration aspects like security, compliance, governance
and operations.
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.
In this role, you will support the Migrate, Modernize, Build (MMB) program on large and complex migrations, especially of enterprise workloads including technologies like VMware, Oracle, and SAP with a team of experienced specialists as a single entry point.
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
- Design the target architecture and the migration strategy of enterprise workloads including VMware technology, interact with the customer stakeholders and challenge the status quo proposing innovative and differentiating solutions to maximize customer value.
- Involve Google Cloud Consulting (GCC) or a partner with specific VMware skills in order to get to a detailed migration plan and effort estimation.
- Work with the account team to size the target architecture as well as the migration costs, consider all costs like software licensing and network traffic and security, in order to support the TCO/ROI estimation.
- Support the account teams or the migration and transformation architects on the solution design with the target architecture including VMware sourced workloads, and the detailed project planning and estimation.
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.
