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DevOps, Senior Manager

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

A DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust CI/CD workflows and reusable components, creating integration points with other platforms such as Ansible Tower and cloud providers. Key tasks include building and maintaining a library of reusable GitHub Actions workflows and custom actions, be responsible for defining standardized mechanisms to run any CI/CD tasks as well as building and maintaining a library of customised Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks.

What will you do in this role

• Design, implement, and maintain complex reusable CI/CD workflows that are used across our IT ecosystem

• Design, implement, and maintain a collection of Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks

• Identify issues related to software development activities and propose practical solutions to resolve issues.

• Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people. Select systems and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services.

• Create and document detailed designs for simple software applications and components. And contribute to the design of components of larger software systems.

• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.

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

What should you have

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.

• 3+ years of experience in building CI/CD pipelines with any technology (GitLab, GitHub Actions or Jenkins).

• 5+ years of experience in delivering software into cloud (preferably AWS)

• Demonstrated expertise in leveraging Terraform and Ansible for automated infrastructure deployment and automated application management

• Experienced in software engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployments, agile & related software tools).

• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).

• Proven record of delivering high-quality results.

• Product and customer-centric approach.

• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

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 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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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

06/9/2025

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