**Own Every Moment at NetApp**

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

Are you a Cloud visionary with a passion for Google Cloud and cutting-edge solutions? Join our dynamic team at NetApp and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud technology\*\*!\*\*

**Job Summary**

We are seeking a talented and driven Cloud Solutions Architect to join our Google Cloud Solutions Architect (CSA) team in Germany. In this pre-sales role, you will be the technical backbone, identifying customer workloads, architecting innovative solutions, and guiding customers through the adoption of NetApp's Google Cloud-based products. You will collaborate closely with Google Cloud's Sales and CSA teams, leveraging your deep technical expertise to demonstrate how our technology empowers customer innovation in the Google Cloud ecosystem. If you thrive on solving complex challenges and making a real impact, this is your opportunity to shine!

**About Us**

Be part of NetApp's global Cloud Solutions Architect team, where we are at the forefront of driving customer adoption of our Google Cloud services. Our collaborative Sales, Technical, and Customer Success teams are dedicated to implementing and scaling cloud and software services, consistently exceeding sales goals. We foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth.

## **Key Responsibilities**

**What You'll Do**

- Qualify customer opportunities and design tailored solutions leveraging NetApp's offerings in Google
- Cloud.Deliver compelling presentations at customer and partner briefings, Google and NetApp sales meetings, and industry events
- Develop and execute proofs-of-concept to showcase the effectiveness and value of our solutions.
- Ensure seamless handovers of new customer wins to Professional Services and Customer Success teams.
- Actively participate in and host industry meet-ups and user groups, building strong community relationships.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date customer opportunity status in Salesforce.
- Engage in continuous self-study to stay ahead of the curve on public cloud services and emerging technologies.

## **What You Bring**

- Strong technical foundation in Cloud concepts and technologies, with a deep focus on Google Cloud.
- A genuine passion for solving customer business challenges with innovative cloud technology solutions.
- Exceptional personal initiative and the ability to drive customer success with minimal supervision.
- Proven experience working with customers in the as-a-Service space.
- Excellent ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Hands-on experience running proofs-of-concept for software, hardware, or cloud-based solutions in a pre-sales capacity.
- In-depth knowledge of Network Attached Storage (NAS) and its application in cloud environments for workloads like SAP, HPC, virtual desktops, VMware, etc.
- Familiarity with container orchestration runtime concepts and solutions, preferably Kuber**n**etes.
- Experience with on-premises infrastructure and workload experience and data migration methodologies (a plus).
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in German and English (additional languages are a plus).
- Google Cloud certifications are a plus.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

**Equal Opportunity Employer:**

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

**Why You'll Thrive at NetApp**

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

**Our culture**

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.