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Customer Engineer, Application Modernization, Google Cloud (Japanese, English)

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13 hours ago
Ōsaka, Japan or Tokyo, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify and qualify business opportunities, understand customer technical objections, and develop strategies to resolve technical blockers.
  • Provide enterprise infrastructure and cloud modernization expertise through solution briefings, proofs of concept, and direct customer engagement.
  • Assess legacy application environments, recommend application-modernization road maps, and identify workloads for hybrid-cloud migration.
  • Structure and execute prototyping workshops, validate proposed architectures, develop best practices, and document requirements for engineering prioritization.
  • Partner with technical Sales teams, product management, and engineering to drive customer adoption and technical wins.
  • Travel to customer sites, conferences, and related events.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 6 years of experience in container-based application development, integration and deployment, developer operations, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native architecture.
  • At least 2 years of experience developing CI/CD pipelines and integrating them with Kubernetes.
  • At least 2 years of experience developing, scaling, and managing Kubernetes clusters.
  • Fluent Japanese and English communication skills for interaction with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or another technical field.
  • Preferred: 2 years of experience as a lead architect or engineer developing cloud-native system architecture for medium to large systems.
  • Preferred: experience as a technology consultant, technical architect, enterprise architect, technical sales engineer, or solutions architect.
  • Preferred: experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
  • Preferred: excellent business-level communication skills.

Benefits

  • The role includes travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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