Jobs / Pfizer
Staff Platform Engineer, AI & Agentic AI Platform Engineering
Pfizer · Walton-on-Thames, ENG, United Kingdom
Walton-on-Thames, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Walton-on-Thames, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Staff Platform Engineer builds and operates foundational infrastructure for AI and agentic AI hosting platforms across multi-cloud environments. The role develops reusable provisioning modules, auditable CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code and GitOps patterns, while operating secure Kubernetes services with autoscaling, observability, and compliance controls. It also supports incident response, platform reliability, and cost efficiency across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Qualifications
- Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Terraform.
- Experience with multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
- Background in CI/CD pipeline design, observability, and security and compliance frameworks.
- Familiarity with generative AI infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and integration patterns.
- Knowledge of GxP or regulated environments and qualification processes.
- Experience driving platform adoption and mentoring engineering teams.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries.
Responsibilities
- Build reusable modules and templates for AWS and Azure environment provisioning.
- Operate CI/CD pipelines for standardized, auditable build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Automate application-team onboarding and environment setup.
- Create runbooks, incident response guides, and self-healing automation for critical services.
- Design multi-cloud infrastructure patterns using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
- Manage Kubernetes orchestration, autoscaling, and workload isolation for web, worker, and data services.
- Operate multi-environment Kubernetes clusters with hardened ingress, registry access, and role-scoped permissions.
- Maintain logging, metrics, alerts, registries, DNS, and TLS platform services.
- Enforce resource limits, quotas, network policies, and least-privilege access.
- Contribute to incident reviews and improve platform reliability and cost efficiency.
Skills
Argo CDAWSAzureGCPKubernetesTerraformDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CIGrafanaJenkinsNGINXPrometheus
Degrees
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related tec
Industry
PharmaceuticalHealthcareRegulated industries
Relocation
No