Senior Associate, Platform Engineer

ROLE SUMMARY
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, which is part of the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence organization is responsible for the 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. The team is responsible for the self-service platform ecosystem, developer experience, and exploration of emerging technology.
Part of the Data and AI Platforms team are a group of Platform Engineers who are responsible managing components that form the enterprise pro code AI Agent Platform. This platform will be the digital engine that brings together investments we have made into a unified experience for colleagues that take us to the next level of value creation. It powers next generation insights by developing enterprise-grade data foundations, allowing data to flow horizontally, enabling a versatile analytics environment, and embedding insights into day-to-day work to create a digital, data-driven culture.
In this role, you will act as a Platform Engineer for the pro-code Agent Platform that serves a diverse group of colleagues - ranging from novice business analysts and developers to expert data scientists and principal engineers - across the enterprise. The role will require the ability to flex between technical engineering of the platform and hands on working knowledge creating Azure solutions and pro code AI agent applications as a Customer Zero of the platform. You will be an engineering and operations developer for the Azure-based Agent Platform, including integration of Foundry services to enable secure, scalable, and compliant pro‑code AI agents and data applications.
You will contribute to build a reliable , transparent , interoperable and sustainable enterprise-grade platform with security, governance, cost management, and lifecycle in mind to deliver a best‑in‑class developer experience. This will include using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to provision cloud resources in a consistent, repeatable way, ensure environments are highly available and easily reproducible while ensuring tracing, monitoring, and observability of agents. You will also integrate Azure's latest capabilities (including Microsoft Foundry for Agentic AI applications) into the platform, helping the organization leverage Agentic AI in business solutions.
You may have a software development, systems engineering, or DevOps background, or you might have started your career in cloud platform engineering with modern infrastructure automation practices and have a passion for building robust cloud platforms that empower teams to move faster.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Agent Platform Solution Development: Implement the design, engineering, security, compliance, release management, governance, financial management, roadmap, 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), network (VNets/NSGs), data protection (encryption at rest/in transit), and policy guardrails (Azure Policy), aligned to enterprise and regulatory standards; support regular audits and hardening.
• Integrate Foundry & AI Services: Operationalize Microsoft Foundry and related AI/ML services to enable agentic applications; define patterns, SDK and CLI choices, and operational run‑books for development teams.
• Reliability Engineering & Observability: Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, and incident response; proactively optimize performance, availability, and cost (e.g., autoscaling, right‑sizing, reservations).
• Multi‑Environment Operations: Contribute to manage global environments and self‑service tenants; coordinate change governance, lifecycle management, and knowledge management (incident notes, KB articles, run‑books, training curricula).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of professional experience, with 1+ hands‑on with Microsoft Azure services: compute (VMs,AKS), storage (Blob/SQL), networking (VNet, NSGs), identity (Service Principals/RBAC), APIs (Azure API Management) web interfaces, agentic AI (Foundry/Agent 365).
• Demonstrated experience using Terraform (or equivalent IaC) and CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions).
• Proven ability to implement cloud security best practices and compliance controls; incident resolution of medium technical complexity.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming for automation (e.g., Bash, Python); System administration.
• Grit when faced with technical issues - you don't rest until you understand what is happening and why things are not working.
• Collaborate with the Agent Platform team to maintain key informational content and drive platform adoption.
• Superior problem‑solving and communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Foundry, Agent 365, LangChain, LangGraph, MCPs, and agentic application patterns; familiarity with authentication/authorization (IAM, RBAC, Azure Policies).
• Familiarity with telemetry and observability to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help analyze agent's performance and behavior (OpenTelemetry/Langfuse).
• Background with big data & distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes) and debugging networking (DNS, proxies, security groups).
• Exposure to additional IaC/automation tools (ARM/Bicep, Ansible) and governance (Azure Policy).
• Knowledge of data/analytics services (Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, Dataiku) and platform integration patterns.
• Certifications: Microsoft Certified (Azure Administrator/Solutions Architect), HashiCorp Terraform Associate an asset.

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Please apply by sending your CV and a motivational letter in English
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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