Cloud Database Migration Engineer, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a technical consulting role.
• 6 years of experience with Oracle Databases.
• Successful candidates will be required to obtain or currently possess UK Security Clearance (SC-level) to work with the customers in this sector.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with database management tools for backups, recovery, snapshot management, sharding, partitioning and experience with database performance tuning.
• Experience with data migration strategies and moving large-scale production systems either in on-premise/data center environments or migration to cloud scenarios.

About the job

As a Cloud Database Migration Engineer, you will guide customers on the migration of transactional database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server to Google Cloud Platform. You will work with customers to understand technical requirements and assist in designing, planning, managing, and troubleshooting the data migration process. You will travel to customer sites to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower customers. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and constantly drive excellence in our products.

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

• Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex database migration issues.
• Analyze on-premises and cloud database environments and consult on the optimal design for performance and deployment on Google Cloud Platform.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.
• Travel up to 30% of the time as needed, also we frequently use video conferencing) in-region for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.

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