Senior Cloud Engineering Lead
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New York City, NY - USA
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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 seeking a Senior Cloud Engineering Lead to join our growing team at Pfizers Digital hub in New York NY United States. This role requires a strategic technical leader with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a strong emphasis on security automation and infrastructure as code. The ideal candidate will bring 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 GCP hosting environment on a global scale.
- Lead a small technical team of 35 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 GCP 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 35 cloud engineers providing technical leadership coaching and support in their professional development.
- Create modern GCP 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 GCP cloud-native capabilities for Pfizer Digital.
- Design and architect standards for the deployment and management of GCP 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 GCP 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.
- Applicant must have a bachelors degree with at least 6 years of experience; OR a masters degree with at least 5 years of experience; OR a PhD with 1 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 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with demonstrated ability to design build and operate production-grade GCP environments.
- 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 GCP infrastructure capabilities to build secure and well-architected solutions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Expert-level knowledge in building maintaining and deploying infrastructure as code solutions in a DevOps environment.
- Experience with Spacelift or similar IaC automation platforms.
- Advanced GCP expertise including networking (VPC Shared VPC Cloud Interconnect) security (IAM Organization Policies Security Command Center) and compute/data services (GKE Cloud Run BigQuery Cloud Storage).
- 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.
- Google Cloud Professional certifications (e.g. Professional Cloud Architect Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer).
Please apply by sending your CV in English.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid New York NY United States
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers develop and coach others oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
N/A
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
10% travel
Work Location Assignment:Hybrid
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.
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