senior cloud engineering lead 4950479

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

• Bachelor's 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.).