Senior Cloud Engineering Lead

ROLE SUMMARY

At the heart of Pfizer's Digital transformation sits Global Cloud Services, enabling modern cloud infrastructure and engineering capabilities that influence business outcomes and provide value to our business, shareholders, and patients every day.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineering Lead to join our growing team in New York. This role requires a strategic technical leader proficient in multi-cloud environments with a strong emphasis on security, automation, and infrastructure as code. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), a hands-on approach using modern engineering practices, and a proven track record in leading and mentoring technical teams.

Pfizer seeks individuals that are highly self-motivated, eager to learn, and effective when working in a team environment. A strong aptitude towards self-development, continuous learning, and growth is highly desired.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Cloud Engineering Lead provides technical leadership and design expertise, playing a key role in ensuring Pfizer Digital continues to leverage cloud-native design patterns and modern engineering practices. This role will help ensure our Cloud Engineering team delivers a secure, compliant, productive, and innovative multi-cloud hosting environment on a global scale.

You will lead a small technical team of 3-5 cloud engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support in their professional development while driving the adoption of modern cloud engineering practices across the organization.

Lead the design, implementation, and management of multi-cloud solutions focusing on security, scalability, and automation

Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, OpenTofu, Spacelift, and Python/Pulumi to ensure efficient and repeatable deployment of cloud resources

• •Manage and mentor a team of 3-5 cloud engineers, providing technical leadership, coaching, and support in their professional development
• •Create modern cloud design patterns and help drive consumption of reusable patterns through partnership with development teams

Collaborate with global cloud engineers, developers, and product teams to build cloud-native capabilities for Pfizer Digital

Design and architect standards for the deployment and management of multi-cloud infrastructure

Serve as escalation point for operational issues, supporting the on-call engineering team when needed (minimal operational responsibilities,

Stay updated with the latest cloud technology, security trends, and engineering practices to keep our infrastructure modern and ahead of potential threats

Ensure continuous improvement initiatives are identified, prioritized, and addressed within the cloud environment

Champion automation-first approaches across all cloud engineering activities

Work in a cross-functional, global engineering team while creating and evolving internal engineering standards

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar discipline

7-10 years of experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles

At least 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role, managing or leading engineering teams

Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with demonstrated familiarity across multiple cloud providers

Strong experience building and deploying cloud infrastructure using industry-standard IaC tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi

Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Python strongly preferred) for automation and tooling

Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to evolving cloud platforms

Excellent communicator with the ability to influence horizontally and vertically across a large, complex, and matrixed organization

Proven ability to manage priorities and identify outcomes with the greatest business value

Strong technical leadership capabilities including the ability to coach, mentor, and develop other engineers

Customer-centric mentality with a bias towards delivering value at the speed demanded by the business

Experience integrating application hosting needs with cloud infrastructure capabilities to build secure and well-architected solutions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Multi-cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure

Expert-level knowledge in building, maintaining, and deploying infrastructure as code solutions in a DevOps environment

Experience with Spacelift or similar IaC automation platforms

Configuration management experience using Ansible or similar tools

Experience qualifying cloud services capabilities for use within GxP or other highly regulated environments

Cross-functional experience managing cloud infrastructure, security, networking, and application development

Contributions to open-source cloud tooling or infrastructure projects

Relevant cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional, Azure Solutions Architect, etc.)

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

10% travel

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid. Must be able to work in assigned Pfizer office 2-3 days per week, or as needed by the business.

This role is NOT remote

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $139,100.00 to $231,900.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 17.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

Sunshine Act

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national