Hybrid Manager, Platform Engineer

at Pfizer

• Job title: Manager, Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $99,200 - $160,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Python, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Platform Engineer for Pfizer’s Data and AI Platforms team, developing Azure solutions and pro-code AI agent applications. Leading engineering and operations for a scalable enterprise-grade platform.

Responsibilities

• 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