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Job Description
Alkermes is building the next generation of cloud, data, and artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate innovation across the enterprise. We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and support the foundational platforms, automation, and engineering practices that enable secure, scalable, and reliable delivery of applications, analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions.
This role will contribute to the engineering foundations supporting enterprise AI initiatives, including generative AI applications, model deployment, monitoring, governance, and secure production use. The engineer will partner with INDIGO, Security, Infrastructure, Data & Analytics, and delivery teams to simplify development processes, improve developer productivity, and enable cloud, data, and AI solutions.
Success in this role will improve delivery speed, platform reliability, developer experience, and the secure adoption of AI technologies across Alkermes.
Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Build and maintain reusable platform services, automation, and standard engineering patterns.
- Develop self-service capabilities that help application, data, and AI teams deliver solutions more efficiently.
- Support the evolution of internal developer platform capabilities and standardized developer workflows.
- Automate repetitive activities across cloud, data, AI, and application delivery.
- Create and maintain tools, templates, and workflows supporting architecture intake, risk assessment, and solution reviews.
- Implement platform improvements based on agreed architecture and engineering roadmaps.
Software Delivery & Developer Experience
- Build and maintain automated integration, testing, deployment, and release pipelines.
- Implement infrastructure through version-controlled code and reusable templates.
- Help standardize deployment, configuration, and release processes.
- Develop reusable workflows and guardrails that make approved engineering practices easier to follow.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and unnecessary developer friction.
- Monitor platform adoption, delivery performance, reliability, and quality.
- Maintain clear technical documentation, operational procedures, and platform guidance.
Cloud Operations, Reliability & Security
- Build and operate secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud platform services, primarily in AWS.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and service-health measures.
- Participate in incident response, problem investigation, and post-incident improvement activities.
- Support disaster recovery, platform patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation.
- Embed security and compliance controls into platform services and automated delivery workflows.
- Evaluate platform performance, reliability, security, and cost to recommend practical improvements.
Artificial Intelligence & Data Enablement
- Build reusable platform capabilities and cloud patterns for AI, machine learning, analytics, and generative AI workloads.
- Partner with data scientists, engineers, and technical teams to move solutions from development into reliable production use.
- Automate model and AI application deployment, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle activities.
- Implement approved controls for validation, security, traceability, explainability, and regulatory compliance.
- Support AI development environments, shared services, and integration patterns.
- Evaluate emerging technologies that may improve engineering productivity, platform capabilities, or business outcomes.
- Document reusable AI deployment patterns and lessons learned for broader adoption.
Platform Support & Operational Readiness
- Ensure platform services have appropriate documentation, monitoring, support procedures, and ownership.
- Assist delivery teams with onboarding, troubleshooting, and adoption of shared platform capabilities.
- Identify recurring support requests that should be addressed through automation or self-service.
- Participate in platform health reviews and recommend corrective actions.
- Support capacity, availability, performance, and resilience planning.
- Work with service owners to transition new capabilities into sustainable operational support.
Collaboration & Technical Contribution
- Work across Architecture, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Product, Data, and business teams to deliver shared outcomes.
- Participate in technical design reviews and Architecture Review Board preparation.
- Provide practical technical input on platform fit, feasibility, supportability, and implementation risk.
- Share knowledge and promote consistent engineering practices across delivery teams.
- Mentor less-experienced engineers through pairing, design discussions, and technical guidance.
- Communicate technical issues, risks, dependencies, and recommendations clearly.
- Challenge inefficient practices and propose automation or platform-based solutions.
Qualifications
Basic/Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, site reliability, or DevOps.
- Hands-on experience building or operating cloud platforms, preferably in AWS.
- Experience with automated build, testing, deployment, and release pipelines.
- Experience implementing infrastructure through code and automation.
- Experience with cloud security, monitoring, logging, and operational support.
- Experience using scripting or programming languages to automate engineering workflows.
- Ability to independently deliver technical solutions within larger cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience working with AI, machine learning, data, or analytics platforms.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical and integration issues.
- Experience working in an Agile environment using iterative planning, backlog management, and continuous delivery.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications/Skills
- Experience with AWS platform services.
- Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or comparable infrastructure automation tools.
- Kubernetes, Docker, or similar container technologies.
- GitLab, GitHub, or another source-control and delivery platform.
- Monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, or Grafana.
- Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience with Snowflake or other enterprise data platforms.
- Familiarity with machine learning operations, generative AI environments, or AI application deployment.
- Experience with model monitoring, AI observability, or AI lifecycle automation.
- Internal developer platforms, workflow automation, and self-service engineering.
- Experience working in a regulated environment; life sciences experience is preferred.
- Relevant AWS, Kubernetes, security, or infrastructure automation certifications.
Core Competencies
- Hands-on technical execution
- Automation mindset
- Platform reliability
- Security and compliance awareness
- Structured problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Clear technical communication
- Continuous improvement
- Customer and developer focus
- Learning agility
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $150,000 to $190,000. In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, training, knowledge, and experience. Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package. Additional details can be found on our careers website: www.alkermes.com/careers#working-here
Alkermes has recently adopted a hybrid working environment to support and meet the needs of employees and this role will operate in a flexible environment with 60% of time in the office and 40% from home. This position is eligible for the hybrid workplace model, requiring work to be completed onsite at our Waltham, MA office at least 3 days per week. This role is not eligible for fully remote work.
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About Us
Why join Team Alkermes?
Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.
We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.
Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.
