Senior Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer, Data Storage and Protection

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

Our IT team functions as a strategic business partner, proposing innovative ideas and solutions that drive new capabilities We are a global team and collaborate globally to deliver services and solutions, focus on enterprise storage services in Hybrid Cloud Environment, testing new technologies, and providing solution consultancy and recommendations, that enhance productivity and accelerate our ability to drive innovations.

What will you do in this role:

At least 4-5 years of relevant experience in support and or engineering role, hands-on experience using AWS Cloud, Traditional storage domain, and infrastructure as Code practices, including:

• Enterprise storage solution platforms (e.g., HPE 3PAR, Dell Powermax and Power scale, NetApp CDOT)
• Excellent knowledge of AWS storage services (FSx, EFS and S3) and deployments
• Very good grasp on AWS Services Route53, VPC, Transient GW, Security Group and IAM Services and security management for deployments
• Experience building solution using AWS Services Lambda, Event Bridge DynamoDB and CloudWatch etc.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies Ansible, CloudFormation, and Terraform is must
• Experience with scripting language such as Python or Unix shell scripts with strong focus towards automation.
• Experience with software solution design and documentation
• Code development using GitHub Tool and Git Code Management Practices
• Experience and knowledge of using GitHub Actions or Jenkins for CI/CD
• Designing and deploying AWS services using solution design and deployment approach
• Ability to articulate the solution requirements, present solution to customers and build solution using automations wherever applicable.
• Experience with developing self-services using ServiceNOW SRM will be an advantage for this role
• Knowing Kubernetes and container orchestration will an advantage
• Proven experience working and supporting Hybrid cloud environments
• Experience delivering products and features using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nobel9, or similar platforms.

At least 3-5 years of relevant experience focussed on:

• Operational ITIL support processes and managing platform support KPIs
• Supporting enterprise-class storage HW refresh, patching and upgrades, capacity management tasks and participate and handle performance troubleshooting calls.
• Hands-on experience leading storage data-migration projects as technical SME, and handling escalations as SME
• Experience with infrastructure, network, or security issues troubleshooting.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and support on-premises and cloud storage infrastructure technologies as senior product engineer role.
• Connect with internal customers to take requirements and translate them into product features and deliver services aligned to our product offerings.
• Independently identify, evaluate, and engineer technologies within storage services (Block, File, Object) both on-premises and in the cloud (AWS/Azure). Develop, test, document, and transition storage infrastructure to operations.
• Plan and execute proof-of-concept work for new technologies and features, overseeing the entire cycle from idea to acceptance and finally implementation.
• Lead projects with focused on product engineering & support tasks, delivering to timelines, and proactively keep track of progress and aligned to Agile timelines.
• Collaborate with IT Security, IT Compliance, and Cross Product teams to continually drive KPI improvements in support of our hybrid cloud vision.
• Design highly available architectures ensuring services can be consumed as self-service via API/portal by various product/upstream infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to our strategic direction and oversight for the design, development, and support of AWS cloud infrastructure services, including the full lifecycle of technical architecture, infrastructure engineering, and operations.
• Work with IT leadership to identify, develop, and drive long-term strategies and initiatives that streamline the overall IT business model.
• Drive process improvements through new enhancements and using automation technologies supported in company.
• Act as a storage subject matter expert, offering help and advice to colleagues from other product teams and customer application support teams in various divisions.
• Work in a fast paced global environment, adjusting time and work schedules according to demand of projects and be a great team player for team.
• Learning neck for new technologies to keep up with changes in industry and requirements of job role using available resources both internal & external.

Required Skills:

Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Configuration Management (CM), Design Applications, Incident Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Service Management (ITSM), Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration, System Designs

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What should you have:

• Team player excelling both individually and collaboratively
• Excellent at connecting with customers, handling escalations, and gathering feedback, proficient in driving conversations and presenting in meetings
• Leading technology strategy, architecture, design, and integration for partnerships
• Understanding cross-cultural business practices and building rapport
• Comfortable managing projects in a fast-paced environment
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Adaptable and open to change, able to adjust to new situations and challenges
• Efficient time management to meet deadlines and prioritise tasks in Agile teams
• High emotional intelligence, understanding and managing emotions, and empathising with others
• Collaborative, working well with others to achieve shared objectives
• Critical thinking, analysing situations and making informed decisions
• Conflict resolution, effectively addressing and resolving disagreements
• Attention to detail, thorough and accurate in completing tasks

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.

Education Minimum Requirement: 

· B.Sc. Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

· Relevant certification or completion of equivalent program in areas such as Software Development, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada. 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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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

03/11/2026

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