Senior Specialist, Public Cloud Networking

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 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

The Public Cloud Automation Software Engineer role will be instrumental in implementing the architecture and the engineering processes and best practices to enable the foundational infrastructure (compute, network, storage, observability) required for application hosting in public cloud. This role will focus on designing, building, and operating automated, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure at scale. The ideal candidate combines strong infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform), deep cloud networking knowledge, and practical experience delivering repeatable, auditable automation in highly regulated environments.

What will you do in this role

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC), with Terraform as the primary IaC tool
• Build and operate automated pipelines for provisioning, configuration, testing, and deployment of cloud resources (CI/CD for infrastructure)
• Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable our cloud first strategy
• Drive client satisfaction by identifying and developing process improvement and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance of slutions to operation roadmap
• Develop, document, and maintain reusable Terraform modules, templates, and standards to accelerate secure and compliant cloud deployments across multiple teams and regions
• Develop, document, and maintain reusable Ansible playbooks, templates, and standards to accelerate secure and compliant cloud deployments across multiple teams and regions
• Collaborate with network engineering to design and implement cloud network architectures (VPC/VNet design, subnets, routing, transit/gateway, peering, security zones)
• Implement and manage connectivity solutions including VPN, Direct Connect / ExpressRoute, Transit Gateways, NAT, service endpoints, and hybrid connectivity patterns
• Implement robust security and compliance controls in infrastructure code (IAM roles and policies, network segmentation, NSGs/firewalls, encryption, logging)
• Build automated testing, policy-as-code and validation frameworks (e.g., Terraform plan checks, Sentinel/Open Policy Agent, GitOps workflows)
• Integrate infrastructure automation with observability, logging and incident management (CloudWatch/Azure Monitor/GCP Monitoring, SIEM integration)
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and network issues across cloud environments; work with cloud vendor support as needed
• Drive automation best practices, runbooks, and operational playbooks; mentor other engineers on IaC and network design
• Maintain lifecycle management for cloud infrastructure: drift detection, upgrades, module versioning, and secure secrets handling
• Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and change control processes required for a regulated industry
• Provide technical input for cost optimization and capacity planning for network and infrastructure services
• Groom Jira features and stories to improve reliability and reduce support incidents for global cloud infrastructure
• Provide on-call support in case of escalations and major incidents

What should you have

Primary skill- IaC (Infrastructure as Code) / DevOps, Terraform, Ansiblie, infrastructure automation

Secondary-Azure, AWS, GCP

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering with infrastructure-as-code
• Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform (module development, state management, workspaces, remote backends)
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts and hands-on experience designing and implementing network architectures in at least one major public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with cloud provider networking services and best practices (e.g., AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, Google Cloud VPC + Shared VPC)
• Proficiency in CI/CD tooling for infrastructure (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps), and Git-based workflows (GitOps)
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) is beneficial.
• Knowledge of policy-as-code and security-as-code tools (OPA, Sentinel, Chef InSpec, or equivalent)
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and operational tasks
• Understanding of identity and access management concepts and experience implementing IAM at scale in cloud environments
• Experience integrating secrets management and key management services (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS/Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault)
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms and how to integrate them into automated workflows
• Knowledge of regulatory, compliance and governance considerations for highly regulated industries (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR) is a plus
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication and collaboration skills; experience working with cross-functional global teams

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.

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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

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Job Posting End Date:

10/29/2026

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