Senior Specialist, Analytics Platform DevOps Engineer

Job Description

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 company’s 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.

Role Overview

Join a global healthcare biopharma technology team based in Prague and help build reliable, secure, and scalable platforms that support life-changing medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. As an SRE Engineer, you’ll focus on improving system reliability, automating operations, and collaborating with product teams to deliver secure, high-performing services that meet business needs.

What will you do in this role

• Lead reliability efforts: define and own SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, availability goals, and improvement plan for services under your scope.
• Design and implement robust, scalable architectures and automation that minimize operational toil and support rapid delivery.
• Build and maintain IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing to ensure consistent, auditable deployments.
• Drive observability and proactive monitoring: implement metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting that enable data-driven reliability improvements.
• Lead incident response for complex issues, coordinate cross-team resolution, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive preventative actions.
• Establish and codify operational frameworks, runbooks, and standard methodologies to raise operational maturity across teams.
• Coach and mentor SRE and DevOps engineers; foster knowledge sharing and create a pipeline of technical leaders.
• Partner with product engineering, security, platform, and vendor teams to align technology roadmaps, compliance, and lifecycle management (patching, upgrades).
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and troubleshooting for distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, installation qualification/validation artifacts, and compliance evidence when required.

What should you have

Primary skill-AWS/ Azure, CICD, Python/Bash/PowerShell, Databricks, SRE/Devops , VPNs, Git, Linux 

Secondary skill- Familiarity with Conversational BI tools, Power Platform, and emerging LLM/Copilot concepts.

• BSc in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, Platform, or DevOps engineering with proven ownership of reliability for production systems.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP experience valuable) and cloud-native services.
• Strong skills with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), Git-based workflows, and mature CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and error budget processes.
• Proficiency with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing).
• Solid programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or similar) and experience building automation and tooling.
• Strong knowledge of networking (VPCs, VPNs, load balancing, firewalls) and cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with platform engineering patterns, multi-tenant platforms, and managing analytics or data platforms is a plus.
• Familiarity with Conversational BI tools, Power Platform, and emerging LLM/Copilot concepts.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; experience working with global, cross-functional teams.
• Relevant certifications (AWS Professional, Kubernetes, etc.) are a plus.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

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.

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

04/29/2026

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