Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Senior AI DevOps Engineer

Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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2 hours ago
Boston, MA, USASenior

Base Salary

$95k - $143k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications, data platforms, and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and automated security controls across the software development lifecycle.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent technologies.
  • Implement identity, secrets, vulnerability, network security, governance, compliance, observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and reliability practices.
  • Support Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI, and related Azure platform services used for AI-powered applications and agents.
  • Establish platform engineering standards, deployment guardrails, reusable automation patterns, and secure self-service capabilities.
  • Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for cloud infrastructure, deployment, and security issues.
  • Collaborate with software engineering teams on modern cloud-native application deployment architectures.
  • Evaluate Azure and security technologies, mentor engineers, and promote DevSecOps and cloud security best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Typically 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or related technical disciplines.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience supporting production workloads in Microsoft Azure.
  • Deep expertise with Azure cloud services and enterprise-scale cloud operations, including Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD automation.
  • Expertise with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.
  • Strong understanding of Zero Trust, IAM, PAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and cloud security controls.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, monitoring, observability, incident management, and platform reliability practices.
  • Experience building enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms and cloud infrastructure, with regulated-environment DevSecOps experience preferred.
  • Microsoft Azure certifications and experience with Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, AI/ML or generative AI platforms are strongly preferred.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, platform governance, or establishing engineering standards across multiple development teams is preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $95,200-$142,800, plus eligibility for annual bonus and equity awards.
  • Medical, dental, vision, paid time off, summer and winter company shutdowns, educational assistance including student loan repayment, commuting subsidy, charitable donation matching, 401(k), and additional wellbeing and family benefits.
  • Hybrid-eligible or on-site eligible: hybrid employees may work remotely up to two days per week, while on-site employees work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Tech Stack

AzureBashDockerGitHub ActionsKubernetesPowerShellPythonTerraform

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