Senior Cloud Engineering Lead
- United States - New York - New York City
ROLE SUMMARY
At the heart of Pfizer's 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 Pfizer's 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 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 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 3–5 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
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar discipline.
- Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 6+ years of experience; OR a master's 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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Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives
Research confirms what intuition tells us: that purpose-driven companies perform better, are more innovative, attract and retain the best people, and know how to unleash the power of those people. Pfizer’s purpose—Breakthroughs that change patients' lives—fuels everything we do and reflects our passion for building on our legacy as one of the greatest contributors of good to the world.
Each word in our purpose has meaning and reflects the value we strive to bring to patients and society:
“Breakthroughs” - These are the innovations, scientific and commercial, that we seek to deliver every day. All colleagues, regardless of role, level or location, strive for breakthroughs every day.
“Change” - We want to do more than simply improve patients’ medical conditions; we want to dramatically change their lives for the better.
“Patients’ lives” - We consider not only patients, but everyone they touch—including their families, caregivers, and friends—and everything they love to do. It’s an intentionally holistic view.
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Every decision we make and every action we take is done with the patient in mind—and to nurture an environment where breakthroughs can thrive.
Our Values
To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose, we have established a clear set of expectations regarding “what” we need to achieve for patients and “how” we will go about achieving those goals.
The “how” is represented by four simple, powerful values—courage, excellence, equity, and joy—that define our company and our culture.
Courage: Breakthroughs start by challenging convention, especially in the face of uncertainty or adversity. This happens when we think big, speak up, and are decisive.
Excellence: We can only change patients’ lives when we perform at our best together. This happens when we focus on what matters, agree who does what, and measure our outcomes.
Equity: We believe that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for. This happens when we are inclusive, act with integrity, and reduce healthcare disparities.
Joy: We give ourselves to our work, but it also gives to us. We find joy when we take pride, recognize one another, and have fun.
Pfizer Digital
Pfizer Digital takes immense pride in being at the forefront of innovation, harnessing cutting-edge smart technology that profoundly impacts the lives of our patients.
With the transformative potential of digital solutions, we revolutionize how we discover, develop, and deliver medicines, enabling us to achieve breakthroughs faster and more efficiently.
By streamlining and automating transactional processes, we create valuable time and resources, empowering our talented team to focus on meaningful work that truly makes a difference in healthcare and beyond.
Benefits at Pfizer
Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues. Our Pay for Performance Philosophy and Practices reward colleagues based on the contributions they make to our business.
Our Competitive Benefits Programs help our colleagues by:
- Promoting Health and Wellness to help colleagues maintain and improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Pfizer offerings include health and disability insurance, preventative health programs, medical screenings, free or reduced-cost vaccinations, discounts on Pfizer products, mental health support, nutrition and fitness counseling and more.
- Strengthening Colleagues’ Financial Security by providing company contributions to retirement plans, life insurance and financial planning education to help colleagues achieve their financial goals.
- Providing Benefits and Time off for the Moments that Matter to ensure Pfizer colleagues have the time away from the office to recharge, recover and return to work as the best version of themselves. Vacation, Holiday time and Sick time are just the beginning, with a 12 week parental leave policy for both parents of a new born, 10 day of caregiver leave for those times when your family needs you whether it’s a child, spouse or parent, bereavement leave, and additional country-specific programs.
- And so much more, depending on your country and site, Pfizer offers childcare facilities or discount programs, on-site health and/or fitness centers, movement and mindfulness solutions, “Log in for your Day” work flexibility and so much more.
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