Manager, Cloud Engineer

Job Description

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Senior Manager - Cloud Engineering

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

As a Cloud Engineer, you will design, manage, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and applications. You will be involved in tasks such as setting up cloud environments, ensuring the security and scalability of applications, managing cloud services, and optimizing performance. You will work towards ensuring that applications and services run smoothly on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

What Will You Do In This Role

• Manage the design, procurement, installation, upgrading, operation, control, maintenance, and effective use of specific technology services.
• Follow standard approaches and established design patterns to create new designs for complex systems or system components. Apply agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Identify alternative design options and seek guidance when deviating from established design patterns. Align solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security) including contributing to improvement of the standards.
• Collaborate with practitioners to drive adoption of the Technology Engineering practice roadmap within the products where you work.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers to mature their practice and create a pipeline of community leadership talent.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in Product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with Product goals.
  
  

What Should You Have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience working with technologies – any cloud platform, Windows or Linux, any scripting language and cloud security frameworks
• Cloud Platforms Proficiency in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other cloud platforms.
• Networking Understanding of virtual networks, VPNs, and firewalls.
• Operating Systems Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Scripting and Automation Skills in scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell.
• DevOps practices Extensive experience with Git, infrastructure as code (IaC), observability, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Certification Ideally AWS professional level certified
• Security Best Practices Experience with cloud security frameworks and compliance.
• Problem-Solving Ability to diagnose and resolve complex distributed system issues.
• Product and customer-centric approach.
• Experience with other programming language (Python, Java) is a nice to have.
  
  

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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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Shift

Valid Driving License

Hazardous Material(s)

Required Skills

Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Design Applications, High Performance Computing (HPC), Incident Management, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Service Management (ITSM), Release Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration, System Designs

Preferred Skills

Job Posting End Date

07/31/2025

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Requisition ID R341225