Staff Deployment Engineer

Requisition Number: 103941 

Join Insight as a Staff Workspace Deployment Engineer!

Your Mission 

As a Staff Workspace Deployment Engineer at Insight, you will work collaboratively with architects, change managers, and project managers to efficiently and successfully execute on the deployment of Google Workspace to an organization. You are able to understand and configure Google Workspace in the best manner for the Customer’s use cases and effectively train Customer admins on the Google Workspace admin capabilities and any configured integrations. You will work with project managers to identify risks to the quality of the project as well as any potential additional engagements. You’re also hands-on, able to comprehensively test/troubleshoot and build functioning prototypes that prove out ideas and build confidence in the solutions you advocate. 

You will be an established contributor within Insight and will develop a reputation with Customers as well as internal teams for the quality of your work. You will demonstrate repeated delivery of successful migrations and overall good quality projects. You work well with your internal project teams and communicate with your team members the status of project tasks. 

Expectations

Experience 

• 8+ years of Google Workspace Deployment experience, having successfully and confidently led enterprise and complex projects. Additionally, you have experience with complex integrations, governance, mentoring, and architectural input Workspace deployments.

Soft Skills

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical deployment strategies into actionable business insights for diverse stakeholders, including Product Management and Executive Leadership.

• Holistic Problem Solving: Solve for the root cause rather than the symptom. 

• Proven resilience in high-pressure environments; able to lead incident response efforts with a calm, methodical approach to troubleshooting and restoration of services.

• A committed mentor with a track record of upskilling junior engineers and advocating for best practices, automation standards, and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Possesses a holistic perspective of the system lifecycle, enabling the identification of downstream dependencies and the proactive mitigation of architectural risks before they impact production.

• Strong interpersonal and team building skills; adept at driving consensus across cross-functional teams with competing priorities to ensure seamless, on-time project delivery.

• Exhibits a high degree of professional accountability; takes end-to-end ownership of the deployment lifecycle and demonstrates transparency and honesty when navigating technical setbacks.

Travel: <10% travel to Customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Customer Facing: This is a very Customer-facing role. You will interact with Customers on a daily basis. You will participate in Customer meetings to guide the Customer through this transition and complete project tasks. You will present prototypes and create slideshows and documentation to build trust, confidence and consensus both externally and internally.

Training: Ongoing with first week orientation managed by PeopleOps, followed by a 90 day department specific onboarding schedule.

Job Requirements

Certificates

• Associate Google Workspace Administrator

Requirements

• Lead Deployment Projects: Own and lead the end-to-end technical delivery of Google Workspace deployments for enterprise Customers.

• Solution Architecture & Design: Collaborate with Customer IT teams and internal solution architects to design optimal deployment strategies, including user provisioning, data migration, security configurations, and integrations.

• Technical Execution: Perform hands-on configuration, migration, and integration tasks for Google Workspace, leveraging Google's native tools, APIs, scripting (e.g., GAM, Python, Google Apps Script), and third-party migration utilities.

• Data Migration Expertise: Plan and execute complex data migrations from diverse source environments to Google Workspace.

• Identity & Access Management (IAM): Configure and integrate Google Workspace/Cloud with Customer’s Identity Providers for seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) and user lifecycle management.

• Security & Compliance: Implement advanced security features (e.g., DLP, Context-Aware Access, security center configurations) and ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.

• Extensive experience with Cloud Migrate and Google Workspace Migrate tools.

• Troubleshooting & Escalation: Act as a senior point of contact for complex technical issues during deployment, performing root cause analysis and coordinating with Google support as needed.

• Documentation: Create comprehensive technical documentation, deployment guides, runbooks, and handover materials for Customer IT teams.

  • Fundamental Email Concepts: Understanding of mail exchanger and DNS records, platform concepts available in Exchange/O365, spam and antivirus products, mail routing functionalities

  • Active Directory: Provisioning and lifecycle concepts within Active Directory. 

  • Identity Management: building an IDM model with Google Cloud Identity/ Okta/ADFS/Azure as the IDP for GSuite and other applications .

  • Mail Migrations: migration of mail objects from an organization’s mail platform to Google Workspace. Understanding the steps and processes which are considered best practice according to Google methodology.  

  • SharePoint Concepts: understanding the administration of SharePoint and its different use cases, being able to translate SharePoint use cases to use cases within Google Workspace, and based on those use cases what items could be migrated. 

• Ability to lead an in-depth client meeting/workshop across a broad range of topics including discovery, cloud compliance and security.

• Hands-on experience with traditional on-premises and enterprise mail and collaboration technologies.

Useful Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interface with and communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of stakeholders

• Able to take initiative, identify areas for improvement, and begin tasks without constant supervision

• Experience producing technical assets or writing technical documentation

• Inherent troubleshooting skillset

  • A natural curiosity and logical approach to identifying issues, analyzing symptoms, and working towards solutions.

• Eagerness to learn and highly motivated to absorb new technologies, processes, and best practices quickly

• Meticulous attention to detail is crucial for Google Workspace deployments. Precision is required, as overlooking minor aspects can cause major production issues.

• Time management with the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently

  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize, and keep track of various deployment action items and follow ups.

• Ability to recommend cloud-native approaches to solve Customer business and technical challenges

• Understanding of best practices, design patterns, and reference architectures with an uncanny ability to recommend these as needed

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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