Senior Associate, Cloud FinOps Engineer
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Thessaloniki - Greece
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Job Summary
ROLE SUMMARY
At the heart of Pfizers 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 looking for a Senior Associate Cloud FinOps Engineer to join Pfizers Cloud Services team in Thessaloniki. The role will focus on driving financial accountability cost optimization and consumption governance across one of our hyperscaler estates either Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The engineer will partner with cloud engineering platform and business stakeholders to forecast monitor and optimize cloud spend at scale.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Own day-to-day FinOps operations for the assigned cloud platform (Azure or GCP) cost monitoring anomaly detection chargeback / showback and reporting.
Build and maintain dashboards KPIs and unit-economics views for cloud consumption.
Identify and drive cost-optimization initiatives rightsizing reservation / savings plan / CUD coverage idle resource cleanup architecture-level recommendations.
Partner with cloud engineering and product teams to embed FinOps practices into the SDLC tagging strategy and platform standards.
Support cloud budgeting forecasting and variance analysis cycles in collaboration with Finance and the Cloud Business Office.
Contribute to FinOps tooling and automation (native cost tools third-party platforms custom scripts).
Help mature the FinOps capability across the Cloud Services organization aligned with the FinOps Foundation framework.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering IT or equivalent experience.
3 years of handson cloud engineering cloud cost management or FinOps.
Hands-on experience with Cloud Billing(Cost Management Reservations Azure Advisor) or GCP(Billing Recommender CUDs / Committed Use Discounts).
Strong analytical skills comfortable with large datasets SQL and BI/visualization tools (Power BI Looker or similar).
Understanding of cloud architecture fundamentals (compute storage networking containers data services).
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical consumption data into business-friendly insights.
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
Hyperscaler certification (preferred Azure or GCP - associate level or above).
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and tagging governance.
Scripting experience (Python / PowerShell / Bash).
Please apply by sending your CV in English.
Work Location Assignment:Hybrid
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients lives... At Pfizer we are apatient centric company guided by our four values: courage joy equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
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