Specialist, ESE DevOps Engineer

Job Description Specialist, ESE DevOps Engineer The Opportunity Join a global biopharma company with a 130-year legacy and mission to achieve new milestones in healthcare. Be part of technology driven, data-led organization supporting a diversified portfolio of medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Work alongside passionate teams that use data, analytics and insights to drive decisions, and tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats. Our Technology Centers are globally distributed hubs that enable our digital transformation and business outcomes across IT. They bring together diverse teams to collaborate, share best practices, and deliver solutions that save and improve lives. This role is based at our Hyderabad Tech Center and follows a hybrid working model (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). Candidates are expected to reside within commuting distance of the Hyderabad office. Role Overview As a DevOps Engineer you will design, build, and operate cloud-native platforms and tooling that enable secure, and reliable delivery of software products. This role demands combination of software engineering skills with deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, and observability to support microservices and data platforms running on AWS. You will collaborate closely with product teams, architects, and QA to embed DevOps practices early in the lifecycle and drive a culture of automation and continuous improvement. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team. What will you do in this role: Design, implement, and operate cloud‑native infrastructure, platforms, and/or test frameworks on AWS (and other clouds where applicable). Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) to provision and manage environments consistently. Utilize systems and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services. Build and own CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions including automated testing, scanning, and controlled deployments. Automate deployments for backend microservices, MuleSoft APIs, and UI applications. Monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs, providing recommendations for improvements. Support containerized workloads and platform services (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, shared frameworks). Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry). Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets with development teams. Integrate security checks into pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency and container image scanning). Apply IAM best practices and least-privilege policies in cloud environments. Partner with development, QA, and architecture teams to continuously improve DevOps standards and practices. What should you have: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience) 3-7 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or software/platform engineering roles. Preferred Skills: Primary Skills (Must have): Cloud platforms: strong experience with AWS services; solid understanding of cloud networking and security fundamentals. Infrastructure as Code: proficiency with Terraform and/or CloudFormation. CI/CD: hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and practices (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI). Containerization and orchestration: practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Observability and reliability: familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response practices to maintain service availability and performance Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Strong collaboration and communication skills with a product‑ and customer‑centric mindset with a focus on quality, automation, and continuous improvement Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams, with strong problem-solving skills. Secondary Skills (Nice to have): Experience with Azure. Test automation and frameworks (e.g., RobotFramework, PyTest) and/or building shared platforms and libraries. Working with REST APIs, databases/SQL, and modern web or backend development stacks. Familiarity with AI‑assisted development tools (GPT, Copilot). Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS and other DevOps-related certifications Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux) and Helm charts. Who we are: We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world. What we look for: Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today. Required Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Software, DevOps, Docker (Software), GitHub, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Python (Programming Language), Terraform (Software) Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Secondary Language(s) Job Description: #MSDHYDIT Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Regular Relocation: Domestic VISA Sponsorship: No Travel Requirements: No Travel Required Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Not Indicated Valid Driving License: No Hazardous Material(s): n/a Job Posting End Date: 08/14/2026 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.