Senior Associate, Platform Engineer

About the role

Pfizer’s purpose, breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, is rooted in being science driven and a patient-focused company. Digital and Technology is the driving force of data and AI innovation at Pfizer. The Data and AI Platforms team, part of the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, is responsible for creating a seamless experience for engineers to harness data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, agentic, and visualization capabilities through a unified platform across the enterprise – from research and development, clinical, manufacturing, commercial, and enabling functions across all geographies.

Responsibilities

• Agent Platform Solution Development: Participate in the design, development, and service/operation of the enterprise pro-code AI agent platform on Azure, including Foundry integrations.
• Automate Cloud Infrastructure: Develop highly available, scalable, and reproducible Azure environments scripts using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); implement CI/CD pipelines for platform components and configurations.
• Security & Compliance by Design: Implement robust controls across identity (RBAC) and policy guardrails aligned to enterprise and regulatory standards.
• Integrate Foundry & AI Services: Operationalize Microsoft Foundry and related AI/ML services to enable agentic applications and create run-books for development teams.
• Reliability Engineering & Observability: Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Multi-Environment Operations: Contribute to manage global environments and self-service tenants.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field with at least 2 years of relevant experience; OR a master's degree with more than 0+ years of experience; OR an associate's degree with 6 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 8 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience using CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions).
• Collaborate with the Agent Platform team to maintain key informational content and drive platform adoption.
• Superior problem-solving and communication skills.