Specialist, HPC Cloud Engineering

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 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

As Specialist of HPC Cloud Engineering, you will maintain and support HPC solutions in the cloud using IaC, CICD, job schedulers (both cloud and on-premise), researcher pipelines, and cloud-native services. Automate low-value tasks to allow scientists to focus on high-value work, leveraging elastic cloud resources to accelerate workflows. Optimize HPC resource availability, its performance and cloud costs. Collaborate with senior HPC SMEs, Application Support Engineers, and research stakeholders to reduce cycle times, boost efficiencies, and enhance UX, increasing researcher capacity.

Ultimately, you will play a key role in implementing scalable and efficient solutions on AWS to support compute-intensive applications. We are looking for an individual with passion for HPC and motivated to provide worldclass HPC experience to enable research scientists to use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.

What will you do in this role

· Deploy, maintain and support high-performance computing clusters, platforms and AWS managed services.

· Monitor and maintain the performance of HPC cluster resources in both on premises and AWS, ensuring high availability, reliability and user experience.

· Optimize compute and data workflows for performance and cost-efficiency in cloud-based HPC environments.

· Create scripts and tools for automating cluster deployment, monitoring, and management (e.g., using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CLI, etc.).

· Analyse and determine bottlenecks in HPC cloud environment, including network performance and parallel file systems.

· Diagnose and resolve issues in complex HPC environments, including job scheduling, software, and cloud infrastructure.

· Document processes, configurations, and best practices for HPC workloads in AWS and Linux environments.

· Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and Hyderabad based Director, as well as collaborating with other teams.

· Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.

What should you have

· Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.

· 3-7 years of experience in HPC infrastructure engineering, working with network principles, and system administration for Linux/Unix servers.

Primary skills (must-have)

· Hands-on proficiency in Linux operating systems, shell scripting, HPC architecture and job schedulers in a DevOps environment.

· Experience with job schedulers and orchestrators viz. GridEngine, PBS Pro, and Altair NavOps.

· Knowledge of network architectures and high-speed interconnects.

· Strong analytical skills to assess and interpret complex data.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey findings and recommendations.

· Strong problem-solving skills.

· Proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential risks.

· Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accurate assessments and reporting.

· Understanding of relevant regulations and compliance standards.

· Experience with disaster recovery, data backup solutions, and virtualization platforms

· Good problem-solving skills

· Customer & product-centric mindset

· Ability to work effectively in a matrixed and hybrid environment

Secondary skills (nice to have)

· Relevant certifications (ideally AWS)

· Familiarity with networking fundamentals (virtual networks, VPNs, firewalls) and storage technologies

· Formal training in HPC.

· Experience with SLURM and AWS ParallelCluster.

· Computational Chemistry, Computational Biology or Imaging Processing domain knowledge.

· Experience with Atlassian stack.

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.

Required Skills:

Availability Management, Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Services Management, Cloud Technology, Cluster Management, Computer Infrastructure, Customer Centricity, Customer-Focused, Design Applications, Disaster Recovery Planning, High Performance Computing (HPC), Incident Management, Information Management, Information Technology (IT), Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Information Technology Management, IT Service Management (ITSM), Lateral Thinking, Linux, Matrix Management {+ 9 more}

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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:

09/14/2026

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