Job Description

At Pfizer we make medicines and vaccines that change patients' lives with a global reach of over 780 million patients. Pfizer Digital is the organization charged with winning the digital race in the pharmaceutical industry. We apply our expertise in technology, innovation, and our business to support Pfizer in this mission.

Our team, the Operations & Insights Team, is passionate about using software and data to improve manufacturing processes.We partner with other Pfizer teams focused on:

·Manufacturing throughput efficiency and increased manufacturing yield

·Reduction of end-to-end cycle time and increase of percent release attainment

·Increased quality control lab throughput and more timely closure of quality assurance investigations

·Increased manufacturing yield of vaccines

·More cost-effective network planning decisions and lowered inventory costs

In the Senior Associate, Site Reliability Engineer role, you will work with other SREs, Product Owners, Software Engineers, Data Engineers and other key people to ensure our software is reliable and performant.You will own key aspects of the SDLC and Software Release process.You will work to architect systems and processes in a cost effective, performant, and safe manner.You will support our solutions by focusing on automation and continuous improvement.

Most of all, you will use your passion for automation, quality, and curiosity to dive into any reliability or performance problem.You will figure out the cause of the problem and propose solutions to resolve it.Your drive for excellence will help us achieve new levels of reliability in our software.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Associate, Site Reliability Engineer’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure quality software and infrastructure is delivered on time within a fast-paced agile environment
• Create easy to use workflows in line with business needs
• Maintain and optimize Cloud infrastructure performance and cost
• Create automations for manual and repetitive tasks
• Enable cloud capabilities for SDLC
• Extend and optimize our CI/CD process
• Create and maintain monitoring solutions for our services
• Participate in the architecture design of new and existing applications
• Build and maintain release & deployment knowledge database
• Continuously optimize procedures and processes to reduce deployments time and increase reliability

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Technology Operations, Software Development, or similar field
• Experience working with all of the following platforms:
  • Kubernetes / EKS
  • AWS EC2, EKS, EBS, S3, RDS, MSK or equivalents on other Cloud Providers
  • GitHub Actions or similar Cloud based CI tooling
• Experience working with at least 3 of the following tools:
  • Terraform
  • FluxCD/ArgoCD or Similar GitOps based Kubernetes CD tool
  • Docker
  • Prometheus / Grafana
  • ELK/ECK stack
• Proficiency in Bash, plus at least one other modern programing language such as Java, JavaScript, C#, Python
• Operational experience with at least one SQL and one NoSQL Database platform such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, DocumentDB, Neo4j
• Experience supporting the development of complex software products including the deployment of multiple versions / releases of a large product
• Experience working in teams to address software defect analysis, troubleshooting and resolution
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
• Proactive approach and goal-oriented mindset, research, problem solving and analytical skills
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Pharmaceutical Experience
• Good knowledge of microservices architecture and cloud computing
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence
• Practical knowledge of Agile (Scrum), SAFe (Scalable Agile Framework)
  

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to manage many parallel objectives and changing priorities.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Job will require working with global teams and applications. Flexible working schedule may be needed occasionally.
• Must be able to support planned weekend or night cutover activities occasionally, depending on release schedule.

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