
Manager, Platform Engineer
Pfizer
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $99,200 - $160,500 per year
About the role
- Lead design, engineering, security, compliance, release management, governance, financial management, roadmap, and service/operational oversight for the enterprise pro–code AI agent platform on Azure, including Foundry integrations.
- Architect highly available, scalable, and reproducible Azure environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); implement CI/CD pipelines for platform components and configurations.
- Implement and enforce 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; drive regular audits and hardening.
- Operationalize Azure AI Foundry and related AI/ML services to enable agentic applications; define patterns, SDK and CLI choices, and operational run–books for development teams.
- Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, and incident response; proactively optimize performance, availability, and cost.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least four years of relevant experience; OR Master’s degree with two years of relevant experience; OR Associate's degree with seven years of relevant experience; OR Ph.D. with 0+ years of experience; OR 9 years of relevant experience with a high school diploma or equivalent
- 3+ years in engineering/technical roles operating complex, rapidly evolving platforms/products
- Demonstrated hands–on expertise with Microsoft Azure services and architecture: compute (VMs, AKS), storage (Blob/SQL), networking (VNet, NSGs), identity (Service Principals/RBAC), APIs (Azure API Management) web interfaces, agentic AI (Foundry/Agent 365)
- Strong Terraform (or equivalent IaC) and CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions)
- Proven ability to implement cloud security best practices and compliance controls; incident resolution of high technical complexity
- Proficiency in scripting/programming for automation (e.g., Bash, Python); System administration.
- Excellent problem–solving and communication skills; effective with technical and non–technical audiences, including executive presentations.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions
- Additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
- Paid vacation
- Holiday and personal days
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
- Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
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Hard skills
AzureTerraformCI/CDscriptingprogrammingBashPythoncloud securityincident resolutionmonitoring
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationpresentation