About this Senior Associate, Cloud FinOps Engineer role at Pfizer
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 looking for a Senior Associate, Cloud FinOps Engineer to join Pfizer's Cloud Services team in Thessaloniki. The role will focus on driving financial accountability, cost optimization, and consumption governance across one of our hyperscaler estates — either Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The engineer will partner with cloud engineering, platform, and business stakeholders to forecast, monitor, and optimize cloud spend at scale.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Own day-to-day FinOps operations for the assigned cloud platform (Azure or GCP) — cost monitoring, anomaly detection, chargeback / showback, and reporting.
Build and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and unit-economics views for cloud consumption.
Identify and drive cost-optimization initiatives — rightsizing, reservation / savings plan / CUD coverage, idle resource cleanup, architecture-level recommendations.
Partner with cloud engineering and product teams to embed FinOps practices into the SDLC, tagging strategy, and platform standards.
Support cloud budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis cycles in collaboration with Finance and the Cloud Business Office.
Contribute to FinOps tooling and automation (native cost tools, third-party platforms, custom scripts).
Help mature the FinOps capability across the Cloud Services organization, aligned with the FinOps Foundation framework.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of hands‑on cloud engineering, cloud cost management, or FinOps.
Hands-on experience with Cloud Billing (Cost Management, Reservations, Azure Advisor) or GCP (Billing, Recommender, CUDs / Committed Use Discounts).
Strong analytical skills — comfortable with large datasets, SQL, and BI/visualization tools (Power BI, Looker, or similar).
Understanding of cloud architecture fundamentals (compute, storage, networking, containers, data services).
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical consumption data into business-friendly insights.
Demonstrated experience in an agile work environment possessing qualities such as a collaborative mindset, adaptability to change, and a proactive problem-solving approach.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Hyperscaler certification (preferred Azure or GCP - associate level or above).
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and tagging governance.
Scripting experience (Python / PowerShell / Bash).
Please apply by sending your CV in English.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Flexibility
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
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