Manager, Cyber Platform Engineering

ROLE SUMMARY

Our Global Cyber Defense team is responsible for safeguarding Pfizers digital assets and infrastructure through proactive threat detection response and risk mitigation across on-premises cloud and hybrid environments.

The Manager Cyber Platform Engineering leads the execution and operational excellence of core cybersecurity platforms that enable detection response identity protection data protection and security visibility across the enterprise. This role oversees the engineering integration and ongoing reliability of security tooling and platform services across onpremises cloud and hybrid environments. The role partners closely with Security Operations Threat Hunt & Detection Threat Intelligence Incident Response Infrastructure and Cloud Services teams to ensure security platforms are resilient wellintegrated and continuously improved to meet evolving threats and compliance needs.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead daytoday platform engineering execution for cybersecurity technologies ensuring stable operations consistent service delivery and timely improvements.

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team driving accountability technical excellence and delivery of measurable outcomes.

• Own the operational health of cyber platforms including availability performance upgrades patching coordination configuration management and lifecycle planning.

• Oversee integrations and data flows between security platforms and enterprise systems to enable effective detection response automation and reporting.

• Partner with SOC Incident Response Threat Hunt & Detection and Threat Intelligence teams to translate operational requirements into platform features tuning and roadmap items.

• Establish and maintain platform engineering standards deployment patterns configuration baselines and operational runbooks to improve consistency and supportability.

• Drive reliability improvements through instrumentation monitoring alerting and rootcause analysis.

• Lead remediation of platform incidents and recurring issues.

• Ensure platforms meet security privacy and regulatory expectations through access controls audit logging evidence support and adherence to internal change management processes.

• Track and report platform service metrics (e.g. uptime ingestion completeness integration health backlog burndown) escalating risks and constraints to senior leadership.

• Identify opportunities for modernization and efficiency (e.g. automation selfservice standardization) to reduce manual effort and improve timetovalue for Cyber Defense teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Cybersecurity or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 4 years of experience in platform engineering security engineering infrastructure engineering or operations roles supporting enterprise technology platforms.

• Prior experience serving as a technical lead with accountability for delivery prioritization and operational outcomes or leading engineers.

• Strong understanding of enterprise production operations including change management incident/problem management configuration management and service reliability practices.

• Working knowledge of cloud and hybrid environments and how enterprise services are deployed secured and operated at scale.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate platform constraints into practical options and tradeoffs.

• Demonstrated experience in an agile work environment possessing qualities such as a collaborative mindset adaptability to change and a proactive problem-solving approach.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience supporting cybersecurity platforms used by security operations and engineering teams (e.g. SIEM SOAR EDR/XDR identity security vulnerability management data protection security posture management).

• Familiarity with designing resilient integrations and telemetry pipelines that support monitoring detection and investigative workflows.

• Exposure to automation and infrastructureascode practices to improve repeatability and reduce operational risk.

• Experience operating platforms in regulated or highly controlled environments (e.g. healthcare life sciences manufacturing) with strong audit and evidence requirements.

• Demonstrated success improving platform reliability and service maturity through metrics standardization and continuous improvement.

• Relevant certifications in cloud security or platform engineering disciplines.

WORK SCHEDULE TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Travel as required by the business (less than 5% domestic and/or international)

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

Please apply by sending your CV in English.

Work Location Assignment:Hybrid

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