Application Modernization Engineer

Google

3 - 5 years

Pune

Posted: 22/06/2025

Job Description

Info Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pune, Maharashtra, India; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pune, Maharashtra, India; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in software engineering.
3 years of experience in application or solution architecture.
3 years of experience in developing applications in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar.
Experience managing internal or client-facing projects to completion.
Experience troubleshooting client's technical issues, and working with Engineering, Sales, and Services teams, and customers.
Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining internet facing production-grade applications.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in designing cloud-native enterprise applications.
Experience with unit or automated testing tools such as Junit.
Experience with networking technologies (e.g., Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (e.g., Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (REST APIs), web security mechanisms).
Experience with DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack, Jenkins).
Understanding of open source server software (e.g., NGINX, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch).

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As an Application Modernization Engineer, you will work with customers to assess existing enterprise applications in anticipation of a cloud migration/modernization, by providing application design experience, assessing and classifying applications and application platforms, and proposing rewrite approaches to facilitate deployment to cloud native products like Google Kubernetes Engine. You will work with customers on legacy application re-design and implementation including application scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations such as application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and more. You will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and constantly generate 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 design and build applications. Recommend approaches and estimated effort for application migration and modernization programs.
Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
Maintain high levels of development practices (e.g., technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution) writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code, with repeatable quality and predictability.
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Work with customers to design technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations.
Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.