Spcialist , Software Engineering

Job DescriptionSpecialist, Software EngineeringThe OpportunityBased 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. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create 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 ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the 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. Together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.Role OverviewAre you an innovative technical expert, looking for an opportunity to use your technology skills and strengths to impact on a product centric data and analytics organization within an enterprise? Are you looking for an opportunity where you will be able to help various products and services teams build their solutions in a modular fashion, which enables an end-to-end customer journey in an integrated fashion? Are you looking to go beyond just platforms and technologies and build true value add, self-serve data and analytics products? If so, come join us and help us build one of the industry’s most complete and advanced data and analytics eco systems.As the Data engineering Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for developing solutions to support the delivery of product roadmaps for multiple Data engineering platforms. You will engage with technical product manager, architect, and other members of the organization to design and deliver solutions to address business needs. You will also be responsible for testing the solutions, updatingWhat should you haveHands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native infrastructure.Good Experience in Data & integration and understanding data analytics concepts, ETL/ELT and integration platform architecture.Strong understanding and experience in data analytics ecosystem and prefer to have experience in the data ingestion, curation and orchestration tools (Ex. dbt cloud, Matillion, Airflow)Good knowledge of cloud networking, security best practices, and cost optimization.Experience with container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).Proficient with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent).Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.).Practical programming/scripting skills (Python, Bash/Shell).Comfortable working on Linux/Unix environments.Solid understanding of version control, release management, deployments, and related tooling.Familiar with SDLC, basic QA/testing practices, and release verification.Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Acceldata or similar).Proven ability to maintain platform availability, troubleshoot production issues, and implement optimizations.Solid understanding of version control, release management, deployments, and related tooling.Familiar with SDLC, basic QA/testing practices, and release verification.Experience working closely with product teams; able to translate customer needs into technical solutions.Product- and customer-centric mindset with experience participating in product lifecycle activities.Experience working in Agile teams and knowledge of Scrum.Strong written and verbal communication skills, and ability to work in a matrixed organization.What will you do:Build, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) to support our application and data integration platform.Technical implementation of platform features across engineering and product teams.Collaborate with product managers and customers to understand requirements and translate them into scalable, secure infrastructure solutions.Participate in product planning: contribute to backlog prioritization, provide estimations, and support timely delivery of enhancements.Ensure platform availability and reliability; monitor performance and implement optimizations.Proactively identify and implement cost-saving opportunities for cloud and platform resources.Collect and act on user feedback to improve platform usability and adoption.Work effectively in a matrix organization, aligning functional engineering goals with product priorities.Primary SkillsCertifications: AWS Certified (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer), Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD), GCPWho 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