Role Summary
At the heart of Pfizer's Digital hosting and application development strategy sits the Cloud and Network Security Services (CNSS) organization. Enabling all manner of digital infrastructure and cloud development capabilities, these services and products permeate across Pfizer influencing business outcomes and providing value to our business, shareholders, and patients every day. Pfizer is currently on a journey to deepen and extend our use of the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Azure Cloud Engineering role will work with a team of cloud engineers, developers, and product specialist with the goal of building native cloud capabilities for all of Pfizer to consume.
The Azure Cloud Engineering role provides senior level technical and design experience and will be key in maturing the Pfizer Azure Cloud environment. The role will have ownership in establishing a secure, compliant, productive, and innovative cloud hosting environment. The role will bring expert level experience in designing Azure cloud solutions and implementing infrastructure as code capabilities. This role will deeply influence how Pfizer Digital consumes and utilizes Azure hosting technologies in support of all business lines on a global scale and will be critical to the development of Azure cloud capabilities. The Azure Cloud Engineering role will directly impact how infrastructure is designed, qualified, built, and ultimately made available to Pfizer customers.
The ideal candidate will have strong demonstratable experience in working within an Azure infrastructure environment along with developing solutions using infrastructure as code.
Role Responsibilities
- Work in a cross functional, global engineering and service development team while creating enduring internal engineering and development standards.
- Bring expert level knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud services with demonstratable infrastructure design experience.
- Directly Influence how our business consumes Azure cloud technologies with a bias towards repeatable infrastructure as code principles.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, developers, and product teams to build native cloud capabilities for Pfizer.
- Design and architect global standards for the deployment and management of the Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Partner with customer teams to ensure new Azure services are deployed in concert with business requirements and a repeatable fashion.
- Keep abreast of new Azure services and their applicability to Pfizer's Azure cloud deployment.
- Address any systemic issues in product durability and partner with operational teams to ensure effective & efficient ongoing supportability of the cloud.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar discipline.
- 6+ years of experience in an enterprise IT setting, preferably one in a highly regulated industry such as banking/financial or healthcare/pharmaceutical.
- Expert-level knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure development, implementation, and sustaining support.
- Experience building and deploying cloud infrastructure using industry standard IaC capabilities such as Terraform.
- Excellent communicator, with an ability to influence horizontally and vertically across a large, complex, and matrixed organization. Adept at managing priorities to identify those outcomes with the greatest value for Pfizer.
- Customer centric mentality biased towards delivering value to Pfizer at the speed demanded by our business.
- Experience integrating application hosting needs with Azure infrastructure capabilities to build secure and well architected capabilities.
- 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.
Nice-to-Have
- Demonstratable experience working in a DevOps environment with expert level knowledge in building, maintaining, and deploying infrastructure as code solutions.
- Experience building infrastructure as code capabilities using Terraform; configuration management experience using Ansible.
- Experience qualifying cloud services capabilities for use within a GxP regulated environment.
- Cross functional experience in managing cloud infrastructure, security, networking, and application development.
Physical/Mental Requirements
- Position requires the use of a computer device for long periods.
Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel, or Environment Requirements
- Last day to apply: March 14, 2025
- Travel: 5% or less per year
- Off hours work may be required to support deployments or troubleshooting events
- Work Location Assignment: Hybrid. Must be able to work in Pfizer office an average of 2.5 days per week or as needed by the business
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $120,800.00 to $201,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 17.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life's moments. Benefits offered include a 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, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider's name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
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