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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud - **Company:** Google - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Migration Manager, Software Engineering, Virtualization Technology, Google Cloud, Containerization - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=deb35a528a29f8e2 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. * 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role. * Leadership experience (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching). * Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms., * Experience with software lifecycles, building tools, and architecting/developing software for scalable, distributed systems (e.g., data platform, AI/ML, infrastructure). * Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales engineering team. * Experience managing a team through pre-sales processes and career development (e.g., account mapping, quota setting, performance management, managing sensitive information). * Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders/executive leaders (e.g., delivering compelling messages by audience, asking strategic questions, leading conversations that drive accelerated value realization and business opportunity). ## Description As a Customer Engineering (CE) Manager, you will lead and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working alongside our customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical blockers. You will foster a culture of technical ownership and understand the mechanics of architecture, delivery, and consumption across the Google Cloud portfolio., * Lead a team of customer engineers, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate value realization. * Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, cross-pillar solutions, and expansion opportunities to drive technical wins. * Partner with Sales to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, with a focus on winning new workloads and driving consumption within existing ones. Through planning stages, determine alignment, coverage and staffing needs. * Balance technical leadership with operational excellence. 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