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Manager, DevOps Lead

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.

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

Our ability to deliver features rapidly, securely, and reliably is central to our enterprise technology strategy. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be a key enabler of that mission — architecting CI/CD pipelines, optimizing cloud infrastructure, automating deployment workflows, and ensuring platform observability across our AWS, MuleSoft, and microservices landscape. 

 

This role demands technical depth in cloud and automation along with a strategic mindset for cost optimization, system resilience, and continuous improvement. 

Key Responsibilities 

Platform Reliability & Infrastructure as Code 

 

Design and manage AWS infrastructure for microservices and MuleSoft workloads (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Databricks). 

Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) to provision and manage environments consistently. 

Containerization & Orchestration: Build, deploy, and maintain Docker containers and orchestrate workloads using Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed). 

Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies are in place. 

Monitoring & Logging: Set up and maintain observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar). 

 

CI/CD & Release Automation 

Own the enterprise CI/CD strategy using GitHub Actions for multi-stage builds, automated testing, security scans, and controlled deployments. 

Automate deployments for backend microservices, MuleSoft APIs, and UI applications. 

Introduce deployment strategies like blue-green, canary, and rolling updates. 

Performance & Cost Optimization: Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. 

 

Observability & Incident Response 

Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry). 

Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets with development teams. 

Drive root cause analysis and remediation for production incidents. 

 

Security & Compliance 

Integrate security checks into pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container image scanning). 

Enforce IAM best practices and least-privilege policies. 

Ensure compliance with enterprise security and regulatory standards. 

 

 

Collaboration & Leadership 

Partner with development, QA, and architecture teams to embed DevOps practices early in the lifecycle. 

Mentor junior DevOps engineers and promote a culture of automation-first and self-service tooling. 

Contribute to DevOps standards, playbooks, and enterprise-wide best practices. 

 

Qualifications 

3+ year’s experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform operations. 

Strong AWS expertise (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC design). 

Proven track record in CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions is must). 

Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation). 

Strong skills in scripting/automation (Python, Bash, Groovy). 

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). 

Familiarity with API deployments (MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway) and microservices environments. 

Deep knowledge of security best practices in CI/CD and cloud. 

MuleSoft deployment experience is a plus. 

AWS or DevOps certifications preferred. 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. 

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). 

Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux) and Helm charts. 

Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd). 

Knowledge of secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager). 

 

Soft Skills: 

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting ability. 

Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 

Ability to work in fast-paced, agile environments. 

Proactive mindset with a focus on automation and continuous improvement. 

 

 

KPIs & Success Metrics 

Deployment frequency: increase release cadence without rollback. 

Mean time to recovery (MTTR): reduced for production incidents. 

Cost efficiency: measurable reduction in AWS spend through optimization. 

Pipeline success rate: high automation reliability with minimal manual interventions. 

Compliance: zero high-risk security vulnerabilities in production deployments. 

 

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 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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Regular

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Hybrid

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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, Systems Integration, Testing

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Job Posting End Date:

08/19/2025

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Requisition ID:R356991