Staff Platform Engineer, AI/ML Infrastructure

8 ore fa

roma, lazio, Italia Pfizer Tempo pieno
Staff Platform Engineer, AI/ML Infrastructure

Department: AI Software & Operations

Role Summary

The Staff Platform Engineer, AI/ML Infrastructure will provide technical leadership for thecloud platforms, deployment systems, and operational foundations that power enterprise-scalegenerative AI applications.

This role will define and evolve the infrastructure architecture for AI/ML platforms running across AWS,Kubernetes, serverless, and containerized environments. The engineer will lead platform standards forreliability, scalability, observability, CI/CD, security, and developer enablement, while partnering closelywith software engineering, AI engineering, security, and operations teams.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on cloud engineering experience with staff-level technicalinfluence. They are comfortable designing infrastructure patterns, writing infrastructure-as-code,improving delivery pipelines, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions that raise theoperational maturity of AI platforms across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define and drive the technical strategy for AI/ML platform infrastructure supporting generative AIapplications, LLM integrations, model routing, and enterprise AI services.
  • Architect, build, and operate scalable cloud platforms using AWS services such as EKS, ECSFargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ALB, and MWAA.
  • Establish reusable infrastructure patterns using CloudFormation, Helm, and Terraform to supportreliable multi-environment and multi-region deployments.
  • Lead CI/CD architecture using GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC-based AWSauthentication, automated quality gates, deployment promotion, and environment approvals.
  • Design and improve observability across AI platforms, including CloudWatch dashboards, logs,alarms, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch, Langfuse, and LLM-specific operational metrics.
  • Build platform capabilities for GenAI workloads, including model availability monitoring.
  • Partner with software engineering teams to improve deployment reliability, rollback strategies,health checks, autoscaling, load testing, and runtime performance.
  • Define and enforce security and compliance practices for infrastructure, including IAM permissionboundaries, Secrets Manager usage, secret scanning, audit logging, tagging standards, andchange-management controls.
  • Provide technical leadership for cost optimization, capacity planning, environment standardization,and operational resilience across development, test, production, and sandbox environments.
  • Mentor engineers, review architecture and infrastructure designs, and influence platformengineering practices across teams.
Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a relatedtechnical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliabilityengineering, or software engineering roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure and services, including container,serverless, networking, storage, observability, and security services.
  • Experience designing and operating production systems on Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, orcomparable container orchestration platforms.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code, especially CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm, or similartooling.
  • Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or similar platforms, including reusable workflows,automated testing, deployment gates, and cloud authentication.
  • Experience building and operating observability solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana,OpenSearch, or similar tools.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security practices, IAM, secrets management, least-privilegeaccess, audit logging, and compliance requirements.
  • Experience supporting distributed systems, microservices, APIs, asynchronous workloads, andmulti-environment deployments.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical design, mentor engineers, and influence engineeringpractices across teams.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting AI/ML or generative AI platforms, including LLM gateways, model routing,prompt observability, token metering, or model failover.
  • Experience operating platforms in regulated enterprise environments, ideally healthcare,pharmaceutical, finance, or life sciences.
  • Experience with multi-account, multi-region AWS architectures and enterprise governancepatterns.
  • Experience with cost optimization, autoscaling strategies, capacity planning, and cloud budgetmonitoring.
  • Experience with load testing and performance validation using tools such as Locust or comparableframeworks.
  • Strong Python or scripting skills for