Director, Cloud Operations

Thessaloníki - Greece

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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.

The Director of Cloud Operations is accountable for the reliability stability security and operational excellence of the enterprise cloud platforms. This role leads global cloud operations teams responsible for 24x7 service availability incident management operational automation cost governance and continuous improvement across a multi cloud environment.

The role partners closely with Cloud Engineering Security and Application teams to ensure cloud platforms operate at scale meet compliance requirements and deliver a consistently high-quality experience for product and business teams.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Cloud Operations & Reliability

Own endtoend operational health of multicloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) including availability performance resilience and recoverability
Establish and mature SREinspired operational models including SLIs/SLOs error budgets and reliability metrics
Serve as executive escalation point for major incidents and operational risks

Operational Governance & Automation

Drive automationfirst operations using Infrastructure as Code configuration management and selfhealing patterns
Define and enforce operational standards runbooks and control frameworks
Partner with Cloud Engineering to ensure operability is embedded by design

Security Compliance & Risk

Ensure cloud operations meet security regulatory and audit requirements
Partner with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to remediate findings and reduce operational risk
Oversee patching vulnerability remediation and platform hardening programs

Financial & Capacity Management

Lead cloud cost governance (FinOps) capacity planning and usage optimization
Provide transparent reporting on consumption efficiency and optimization outcomes

People & Leadership

Lead and develop global Cloud Operations leaders and teams
Build a culture of accountability continuous improvement and operational excellence
Operate effectively in a highly matrixed global organization

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering IT or equivalent experience
10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure platform operations or SRE aligned roles
5 years leading global operations or platform teams
Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider with strong multi cloud experience
Strong background in automation monitoring incident management and operational governance
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 operating large scale regulated cloud environments
Strong understanding of FinOps ITSM modernization and SRE practices
Proven ability to lead operational transformation at enterprise scale

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.

Flexibility

We aim to create a trusting flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working start the conversation!

Equal Employment Opportunity

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer Pfizer iscommitted to celebratingthisin all itsforms allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together we continue to build a culture that encourages supports and empowers our employees.

Disability Inclusion

Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!

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ROLE SUMMARYAt 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.The Director of Cloud Operations is accountab...