Senior Specialist, Platform Engineer (HCGT#006399)

Job Description

Senior Specialist, Platform 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 Centres 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 Centres 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 Centre 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 Centres.

Job Description:

Role Summary

As a Senior Platform Engineer on our DevXOps Platform team, you'll play a crucial role in building, maintaining, and evolving the foundational platforms that empower our product development teams. Our diverse platform ecosystem includes technologies like JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, SonarQube, GitHub Actions Runners, Crossplane, Backstage, and Ansible Automation Platform. You'll work at the intersection of infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native technologies, and DevOps principles, designing, building, and supporting highly available, scalable, and secure platforms. Your efforts will enable our development teams with robust CI/CD pipelines, slick self-service capabilities, and comprehensive observability solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Design & Implementation: Design and implement robust platform solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.

• Collaboration & Performance: Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability across our platforms.

• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Leverage your strong understanding of AWS architecture and components(EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC networking, CloudWatch/CloudTrail) to design, implement, and manage our cloud infrastructure efficiently.

• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Implement and manage comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, and cloud-native services like CloudWatch and Log Analytics. You'll also monitor and troubleshoot complex issues across our platform stack.

• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design, build, and maintain robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions. This includes managing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation and promoting a culture of automation.

• Containerized Solutions: Design, implement, and maintain containerized solutions using Kubernetes and Docker, including managing deployments on EKS and other Kubernetes environments.

• Architectural Contributions: Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions for the DXO Platform, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and best practices.

• Automation & Self-Service Enablement: Develop and maintain automation solutions using tools like Ansible, Crossplane, and custom scripts. Empower development teams with self-service capabilities, enabling them to provision resources and deploy applications efficiently.

• Production Support: Provide expert support for production systems, ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal performance for all our platforms.

• Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices across all platforms, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and industry standards.

• Accessibility & Automation: Automate testing procedures and document defects to ensure accessibility standards are met across our platforms

• Primary Skills: Platform Engineer, Devops, SRE

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.

• Proven hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production systems on any cloud provider.

•  Proficiency in Linux and scripting skills in Python or similar languages.

• Experience with CI/CD methodologies and tools.

• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (e.g., Podman, Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift).

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code principles .

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), CloudWatch, and Log Analytics.

• Experience with version control systems, especially Git, and practices like GitOps and semantic versioning.(must have)

• Familiarity with Artifact Management like JFrog Artifactory or Nexus. 

• Understanding of network protocols and security best practices.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, write clear documentation, and present technical concepts effectively.

Soft Skills

• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.

• Communication: Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Collaboration: A collaborative mindset, eager to work effectively within a team and across departments.

• Continuous Learning: Proactive in learning new technologies and adapting to evolving industry trends.

• Adaptability: Ability to thrive and contribute effectively in fast-paced environments.

• Passion: A genuine passion for building and optimizing robust, scalable platforms.

Bonus Qualifiers

• Certifications in AWS, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, or Kubernetes.

• Experience with JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray administration.

• Knowledge of OpenShift Operators and Kubernetes CRDs.

• Experience integrating ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms into CI/CD workflows.
  Working knowledge of Backstage for service catalog and integration.

• Terraform, Packer or Crossplane expertise.

• Ansible knowledge.

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, 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:

Administrative Policies, Administrative Policies, Automated Testing, Availability Management, AWS Architecture, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Cloud Infrastructure, Design Applications, Git Version Control System, High Performance Computing (HPC), Incident Management, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Information Technology Operations, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), IT Service Management (ITSM), Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, Production Support, Public Administration, Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) {+ 2 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

05/26/2026

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