Posted Aug 20, 2026

Data Center Hardware Specialist II, Google Cloud (Fixed-Term Contract)

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This is a 13 month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) position.
Remote location: New York, USA.

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About the job

As a Hardware Specialist, you will lead the technical delivery of confidential compute projects for customers. You will serve as the primary technical liaison between global clients, internal engineering teams, and internal operations. Your role involves maintaining on-prem and cloud-based environments, ensuring seamless integration of high-performance accelerators with enterprise-grade networking and storage to support the next-generation of mission-critical, data-intensive workloads.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the end-to-end deployment of accelerated compute clusters, serving as the lead technical advisor for confidential, enterprise infrastructure initiatives.
  • Collaborate with customer technical leads and client executives to manage and deliver successful implementations of technical solutions for high-density computing environments.
  • Partner with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package technical playbooks, best practices, and reference architectures for high-performance computing, influencing the roadmap for next-generation hardware and software integration.
  • Engage with sales and partners to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
  • Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.
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.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5 years in enterprise infrastructure delivery and project management, 4 years in architecture, systems administration, or infrastructure delivery, plus hardware diagnostics experience.

Key Responsibilities

Skills & Tools

Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), GPU, Linux, load balancers, firewalls, VPN, JAX, PyTorch, OpenXLA

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About Google

A technology company providing cloud-based solutions and tools for digital transformation. — Industry: Information Technology