Senior Cloud Engineering Lead

Pfizer • New York, NY

3d • $139,100 - $231,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

Pfizer’s Global Cloud Services supports the company’s digital transformation by providing modern cloud infrastructure and engineering capabilities. The Senior Cloud Engineering Lead will provide technical leadership and design expertise to help deliver a secure, compliant, productive, and innovative global multi-cloud hosting environment. The role emphasizes security, automation, infrastructure as code, cloud-native design patterns, and modern engineering practices. The lead will manage and mentor a small team of 3–5 cloud engineers and partner with global engineers, developers, and product teams. The role is hybrid, requiring work in an assigned Pfizer office 2–3 days per week or as needed by the business, and includes 10% travel. Operational responsibilities are minimal, under 5% of time, but the position may support the on-call engineering team as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar discipline.
• 7–10 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 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 is strongly preferred.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to evolving cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence horizontally and vertically across a large, complex, matrixed organization.
• Ability to manage priorities and identify outcomes with the greatest business value.
• Technical leadership capabilities, including coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers.
• Customer-centric mentality and bias toward delivering value at the speed demanded by the business.
• Experience integrating application-hosting needs with cloud infrastructure capabilities to build secure, well-architected solutions.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States by any employer; U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available.
• Position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Multi-cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Expert-level knowledge of 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-service 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, such as AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional, or Azure Solutions Architect.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of multi-cloud solutions focused on security, scalability, and automation.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, OpenTofu, Spacelift, and Python/Pulumi for efficient, repeatable deployment of cloud resources.
• Manage and mentor a team of 3–5 cloud engineers, providing technical leadership, coaching, and professional-development support.
• Create modern cloud design patterns and promote reusable patterns in 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 deploying and managing multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Serve as an escalation point for operational issues and support the on-call engineering team when needed.
• Stay current with cloud technology, security trends, and engineering practices to maintain modern infrastructure and address potential threats.
• Identify, prioritize, and address continuous-improvement initiatives in the cloud environment.
• Champion automation-first approaches across cloud engineering activities.
• Work in a cross-functional, global engineering team while creating and evolving internal engineering standards.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid vacation, holiday, and personal days.
• Paid caregiver, parental, and medical leave.
• Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Eligible to participate in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan, with a bonus target of 17.5% of base salary.
• Eligible to participate in a share-based long-term incentive program.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior