Senior Cloud Engineering Lead

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 seeking a Senior Cloud Engineering Lead to join our growing team at the Pfizer Digital hub in Thessaloniki Greece. 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 <5% of time).

• 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

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology Computer Science Computer Engineering or a similar discipline.

• 7 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.).

Please apply by sending your CV in English.

Work Location Assignment:Hybrid