Network Customer Engineer, Public Sector

The application window will be open until at least March 9, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Austin, TX, USA;
Boulder, CO, USA;
Washington D.C., DC, USA .

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with cloud-native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premises engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience with networking concepts, such as software-defined networking (SDN), routing, virtual private networks (VPNs), load balancers, and firewalls.
• Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.

• Experience engaging with, presenting to, and influencing technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following areas: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), networking, migrations, or security.
• Experience with Google Cloud products and differentiation from competition.
• Experience working with product and capacity teams to resolve technical and capacity blockers.
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Python, Java) or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it’s a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers.

You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Network Customer Engineering Specialist in Google Public Sector (GPS), you will leverage your experience and thought leadership to empower sales teams in incubating, piloting, and deploying workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this role, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business issues, engage in Proofs of Concept (PoCs), and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks.

You will use your expertise and presentation skills to engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication, and organizational skills.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000-$183,000 + bonus +…