Job Description

Manager-Infrastructure Engineer

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

An Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and supporting the infrastructure that enables an organization's IT systems and services to run smoothly. This includes working with hardware, networking, virtualization, cloud environments, and security systems to ensure the organization's IT infrastructure is efficient, reliable, and scalable. Infrastructure engineers often work closely with software engineers, IT support teams, and system administrators to optimize performance, mitigate risks, and deliver high-quality services to end-users.

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 systems or system components. Apply agreed standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result.
Carry out and also improve system software development and maintenance tasks by updating the product design to automate routine system administration tasks using standard tools and software development practices.
Contribute to identification and prioritized adoption of Technology Engineering community practices within the products where you work.
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.
3+ years of hands-on experience working with network and system administration for Linux/Unix and Windows servers.
Experience with traditional disaster recovery & data backup solutions (Commvault, Acronis).
Cloud and Virtualization Platforms Proficiency in virtualization (Vmware, Hyper-V, Nutanix) and familiarity with cloud (AWS, Azure, Google 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 and familiarity with infrastructure automation and management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
DevOps practices Experience with Git, infrastructure as code (IaC), observability, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Security Best Practices Familiarity with IT security practices and compliance.
Problem-Solving Ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
Product and customer-centric approach.
Experience with other programming languages (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.

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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Shift

Valid Driving License

Hazardous Material(s)

Job Posting End Date

04/24/2025

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Requisition ID R341221

Manager Infrastructure Engineer