Cloud Presales Consultant - Google Cloud Platform

Role Overview :

We are looking for a highly skilled and customer-focused Cloud Presales Consultant - Google Cloud (GCP) to support enterprise sales initiatives by designing, positioning, and presenting cloud-based solutions.

The ideal candidate will work closely with sales teams, enterprise customers, and technical stakeholders to architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective Google Cloud solutions covering migration, modernization, data, AI/ML, infrastructure, security, and managed services.

This is a client-facing role requiring strong technical depth, consultative engagement skills, and solutioning expertise.

Key Responsibilities :

- Engage with enterprise customers to understand business objectives and technical requirements

- Design and recommend Google Cloud (GCP) solutions aligned to client needs and transformation goals

- Deliver solution architecture presentations, technical demos, workshops, and executive discussions

- Support sales teams in RFPs, RFIs, proposals, BOM creation, solution documentation, and bid responses

- Architect solutions for cloud migration, application modernization, DR/Backup, DevOps, analytics, AI/ML, and managed services

- Conduct Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and technical validations for prospective customers

- Collaborate with sales, delivery, product, and partner teams to ensure solution feasibility and successful handover

- Ensure solutions follow best practices in security, governance, performance, scalability, and cost optimization

- Build strong relationships with CIOs, CTOs, IT Heads, and enterprise stakeholders

- Stay updated with latest GCP services, partner ecosystem, and market trends

Key Requirements :

- 6 - 10 years of experience in Cloud Presales / Solution Architecture / Technical Consulting

- Hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) presales or architecture roles

- Strong knowledge of GCP services such as Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), BigQuery, Cloud Storage, VPC / Networking, IAM / Security, Backup / DR, and Vertex AI

- Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, networking, and cloud security

- Experience with cloud migration, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, CI/CD, and microservices

- Strong experience handling enterprise customers and complex solutioning scenarios

- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to work closely with sales teams in a quota-supporting client-facing role

Educational Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science / IT

- Google Cloud Certifications highly preferred : Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer

- MBA is an added advantage (not mandatory)

Why Join Us :

- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale Google Cloud transformation projects

- Exposure to strategic customers and next-gen cloud technologies

- Collaborative, innovation-driven, high-growth environment

- Strong career path in cloud consulting and solution leadership

Skills

Google Cloud Platform, DevOps, RFP, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, Presales, IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipeline