Senior Specialist, Senior DevOps Engineer
Merck & Co.
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Senior DevOps Engineer
The Opportunity
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:
This position is ideal for someone eager to grow both in front and backend skills.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (AWS + Azure)
CI/CD & Deployment Automation
Security, Compliance & Vulnerability Management
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
Observability, Monitoring & Incident Response
Collaboration, Leadership & Team Culture
Quality & Continuous Improvement
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:
Preferred Qualifications
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
KPIs & Success Metrics
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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