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Job Description - Google Cloud Platform Cloud Engineer, Pre-Onboarding Advisory
Location: Charlotte, NC (3 days a week onsite)
Role Purpose
Provide hands-on technical guidance to application teams during cloud pre-onboarding. Convert discussions into actionable readiness findings, resolve routine Google Cloud Platform questions and connect teams to the appropriate architecture, security or governance decision makers.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in application-team discovery, office hours, readiness reviews and architecture clinics.
- Capture workload inventory, dependencies, non-functional needs, identity needs, data considerations and operational expectations.
- Use the agreed intake, qualification, scorecard, evidence and handoff templates consistently.
- Explain relevant Google Cloud Platform platform patterns and help teams prepare the inputs expected by the cloud onboarding process.
- Identify missing information, blockers and exceptions; resolve routine issues and escalate architectural decisions to the Advisory Lead.
- Record decisions, frequently asked questions, friction points and candidate pattern improvements at source.
- Coordinate follow-ups with customer teams and maintain continuity through the warm handoff.
- Review offshore-prepared case packs and ensure they accurately reflect customer discussions.
Required Skills and Experience
- 6 years in cloud engineering or technical consulting, including 3 years with Google Cloud Platform.
- Practical knowledge of Google Cloud Platform projects, networking, IAM, compute, containers, data services, logging and monitoring.
- Experience assessing application architectures and translating technical findings into readiness actions.
- Strong workshop, listening, documentation and customer-facing communication skills.
- Ability to distinguish guidance from formal security, risk or approval decisions.
- Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification is preferred.
Success Measures
- Case records are complete, accurate and usable without repeated discovery.
- Routine questions are resolved promptly and genuine exceptions reach the correct owner.
- Application teams understand their next actions, evidence requirements and handoff path.
- Onsite findings are transferred to the offshore advisor with minimal information loss.