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Senior DevOps Engineer
The Opportunity
- Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
- Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role overview
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong capabilities across AWS, Azure, CI/CD automation, networking, IaC, and cloud resource provisioning, infrastructure sizing, and network architecture.
This role is core to building and maintain scalable, secure, cost‑efficient, and automated cloud platforms that power our enterprise applications, data products, and microservices.
The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on technical expertise, a problem-solving mindset, and strong ownership to deliver reliable, secure, and automated cloud solutions.
Why the Role Matters:
Our enterprise technology strategy depends on delivering software rapidly, securely, and reliably. This role enables:
- Automated and compliant cloud provisioning
- Scalable, cost-optimized cloud workloads
- End-to-end CI/CD automation for faster deployments
- Strengthened security posture using vulnerability scanning tools
- High reliability through proactive monitoring and infrastructure engineering
This position is ideal for someone eager to grow both in front and backend skills.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (AWS + Azure)
- Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure including:
- EC2/VMs, VPC/VNet, Subnets, Route Tables, Gateways, IAM, S3/Blob Storage, Load Balancers, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS, Lambda/Functions.
- Perform infrastructure sizing for compute, storage, and network workloads.
- Implement scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost‑optimized architectures.
- Architect network components:
- VPC/VNet design
- Routing, NAT/Transit Gateways
- Firewalls, DNS, API Gateway, Private Endpoints
- Support secure and compliant cloud resource provisioning following enterprise standards.
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience, including:
- Deep expertise in Terraform modules, state management, workspaces, and remote backend
- Experience with CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep templates
- Ability to design multi‑environment, multi‑account IaC architectures
CI/CD & Deployment Automation
- Build and maintain enterprise-level CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (mandatory), Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Automate deployments for:
- Microservices
- APIs
- Web/UI Apps
- Data Pipelines & ETL/ELT
- Implement advanced deployment strategies:
- Blue–Green, Rolling, Canary
- Automate quality gates, security checks, and compliance validations.
- Integrate pipelines with container registries and artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory/Xray).
Security, Compliance & Vulnerability Management
- Integrate and manage security scanning tools:
- SonarQube (code quality & SAST)
- Wiz / Wiz Scan (cloud security posture, vulnerability assessment)
- JFrog Xray (dependency & container vulnerability scanning)
- Enforce DevSecOps practices within pipelines:
- SAST, DAST, license checks, secrets scanning
- Implement IAM least-privilege policies, encryption standards, and compliance guardrails.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using:
- Terraform (primary)
- CloudFormation or ARM/Bicep templates (optional)
- Create reusable IaC modules, automate environment provisioning, and enforce configuration drift controls.
- Build automated monitoring, logs retention, and backup policies.
Observability, Monitoring & Incident Response
- Implement logging, monitoring, and tracing using:
- CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/EFK, Azure Monitor, App Insights
- Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
- Drive incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective actions.
- Build dashboards, alerts, and on-call automation.
Collaboration, Leadership & Team Culture
- Partner with engineering lead, QA, architecture, and platform teams to adopt DevOps best practices.
- Serve as a mentor to junior DevOps engineers.
- Demonstrate strong accountability, ownership, and a proactive mindset.
- Promote a culture of automation-first, quality-first, and self-service capabilities.
Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Write unit and integration tests for UI components (Jest, React Testing Library).
- Optimize front-end performance (lazy loading, bundling, caching).
- Document UI components, APIs, and development workflows.
Primary skills:
AWS, Azure, CI/CD automation, Terraform / IaC, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes / EKS / AKS, Networking, Security scanning / DevSecOps, Monitoring / observability, Python / Bash scripting, Cloud infrastructure provisioning
Secondary skills:
Jenkins / Azure DevOps / GitLab, CloudFormation / ARM / Bicep, SonarQube, Wiz, JFrog Xray, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Helm, Service mesh (Istio / Linkerd), Vault / Secrets Manager / Key Vault, Blue-Green / Canary deployments, React Testing Library / Jest, Frontend performance optimization
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering experience.
- 6+ years’ hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
- 5-7 years Azure cloud provisioning experience.
- Strong working knowledge of:
- VPC/VNet design, routing, NAT, firewalling
- Load balancers, DNS, certificates, reverse proxies
- Expertise in CI/CD using GitHub Actions (required), Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash.
- Experience with containers & orchestration:
- Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
- Infrastructure as Code:
- Terraform (mandatory), CloudFormation/Bicep is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment tools:
- SonarQube, Wiz, JFrog Xray
Preferred Qualifications
- GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Helm chart development
- Service mesh knowledge (Istio, Linkerd)
- Secrets management: Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault
Certifications:
AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional -Must Have
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional -Preferred
Azure Administrator / Azure DevOps Engineer -Preferred
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) -Must Have
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate- Must Have
Security certifications (optional): CompTIA Security+, CEH, etc-Preferred
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
- High ownership and accountability
- Ability to operate in fast-paced agile environments
- Proactive, automation-first mindset
KPIs & Success Metrics
- Increased deployment frequency with minimal issues
- Reduced incident MTTR
- Stable, high‑success pipeline execution rates
- Reduced cloud infrastructure cost via optimization
- Zero high‑risk vulnerabilities in production
- Infrastructure provisioning time reduction through automation
Nice to Have:
Experience implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, or Tekton.
Strong working knowledge of Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, and deployment templates.
Exposure to Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or AWS App Mesh.
Exposure to cost management tools and best practices across AWS and Azure.
Experience with designing zero‑downtime deployment patterns and resilience engineering (chaos testing, fault injection).
Knowledge of multi-account / multi-subscription landing zones, cloud governance, and policy-as-code (OPA / Azure Policy).
Prior involvement in building internal developer platforms (IDP) or self‑service DevOps frameworks.
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 inventing for life, 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.
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Job Posting End Date:
04/15/2026
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