Strategic Cloud Engineer, Public Sector

The application window will be open until at least November 3, 2025. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: Google's hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Reston, VA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.
Remote location(s): North Carolina, USA.
Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in the system, design troubleshooting, advocating for customers' needs, and triaging technical issues (e.g., hardware, software, application, operational, process).
• Experience reading code in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, Go, JavaScript) or in system design.
• Experience with security combined with Linux/Unix or Windows systems, from the kernel to the shell, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• Active or the ability to obtain Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience of Google Cloud Platform deploying and securing services.
• Knowledge of encryption and cryptography, including post-quantum cryptography.
• Understanding security protocols, data privacy, and how to maintain the security of Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with general cloud computing concepts and the Google Cloud ecosystem.
• Excellent skills in architecting and configuring hierarchical key management solutions.

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.

A Strategic Cloud Engineer (SCE is pronounced "Ski") is a Google Engineer working with Google's most critical Cloud customers.

As a SCE, you will support customer implementation of Google Cloud Platform through: architecture creation, solution development, software engineering, integration and much more. You will advocate on behalf of our customers internally to improve our products and our customers' journey in GCP.

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 $102,000-$146,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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 .

Responsibilities

• Build solutions, translating customer business requirements into secure, and performance solution architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Lead end-to-end solutions by designing and implementing integration patterns connecting GCP services with third-party products, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, and on-premises systems.
• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules using tools like Terraform to ensure the automated, repeatable, and consistent deployment of cloud solutions.
• Create code and scripts to build Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automate operational tasks, and create custom software components needed to "glue" services together.

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 .