Join Pfizer – Associate, Site Reliability Engineer

📍 Location: Chennai, India (Hybrid)
🕒 Employment Type: Full-time
🔎 Job Requisition ID: 4938561

🚀 About Pfizer

At Pfizer, we create medicines and vaccines that impact the lives of over 780 million patients worldwide. Pfizer Digital is driving innovation in healthcare by winning the digital race in the pharmaceutical industry. Our mission: to apply expertise in technology, data, and business to revolutionize patient outcomes and transform global healthcare.

Our Global Supply Engineering & Sustainment Team leverages software, automation, and data to:

• Enhance manufacturing throughput and yield

• Reduce cycle times and optimize release attainment

• Improve lab efficiency and QA processes

• Increase vaccine production reliability

• Enable cost-effective network planning and inventory control

If you are passionate about automation, reliability, and performance engineering, join us to achieve new levels of excellence in software reliability.

🛠️ Role Summary

As an Associate, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will collaborate with SREs, Product Owners, Software Engineers, and Data Engineers to ensure software systems are scalable, reliable, and secure. You’ll design robust workflows, own parts of the SDLC, and drive continuous improvement across Pfizer’s cloud and infrastructure landscape.

This role is perfect for problem-solvers with a passion for automation, monitoring, and performance optimization.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality software and infrastructure in a fast-paced Agile environment

• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of systems as part of the SRE strategy

• Architect and maintain cost-effective, secure cloud workflows aligned with business needs

• Monitor and optimize AWS Cloud infrastructure performance and costs

• Automate repetitive processes to boost efficiency

• Extend and refine CI/CD pipelines for faster deployments

• Build monitoring and alerting systems for reliability and uptime

• Partner with cross-functional teams to enhance applications and services

• Develop and maintain a release & deployment knowledge base

• Continuously improve processes to reduce downtime and accelerate release cycles

📌 Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• Experience: Minimum 1 year in Technology Operations, Software Development, or DevOps

Hands-on experience with:

• Cloud & Containers: Kubernetes/EKS, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, MSK, etc.)

• CI/CD Tools: GitHub Actions or similar cloud-based CI

• Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, FluxCD/ArgoCD

• Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/ECK stack, Dynatrace

• Programming: Bash + one modern language (Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, etc.)

• Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) + NoSQL (MongoDB, Neo4j, DocumentDB)

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication (verbal & written)

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

• Proactive, goal-driven attitude

• Solid grasp of microservices & cloud computing concepts

⭐ Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with complex software product deployment (multi-version releases)

• Exposure to defect analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution

• Pharmaceutical industry experience (a plus)

• Certifications: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Solutions Architect

• Tools: JIRA, Confluence

• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum/SAFe methodologies

💡 Why Pfizer?

• Be part of a global leader in healthcare innovation

• Work in a hybrid, collaborative environment that values flexibility

• Contribute to systems powering life-saving medicines and vaccines

• Grow with continuous learning opportunities, certifications, and career paths

• Join a culture of ownership, inclusivity, and innovation

📩 How to Apply

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