Specialist, Software-Cloud Engineering

Merck; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck Hyderabad is seeking a Specialist in Software and Cloud Engineering to join our technology teams. The role focuses on delivering compliant cloud-based solutions, integrating COTS applications, and advancing DevOps automation in AWS and on‑prem environments.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, validation, and business teams to drive solution delivery, manage vendor relationships, and support system implementations. A strong background in Python and JavaScript is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering technology solutions in AWS and on‑premises environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to design integrations and implement cloud deployments.
• Knowledge of regulatory environments and quality standards in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver planned solutions using AWS and/or on‑premises deployments.
• Contribute to system design discussions, integration strategies, and API contracts.
• Drive configuration, parameterization, and environment readiness for releases.
• Design, build, and document CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools for AWS deployments.
• Develop scripts and components using Python and JavaScript for custom integrations.

Skills

AWS

Python

JavaScript

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Specialist, Software, 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 companys' 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 Technical Analyst / Systems Analyst acts as the primary link between business stakeholders, vendors, and engineering teams to deliver and support technology solutions across regulated environments. This role is responsible for evaluating business requirements, implementing commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) applications, designing integrations, supporting cloud deployments, and ensuring solutions meet quality, security, and compliance standards. The individual collaborates across product, engineering, validation, and business teams to drive solution delivery, manage vendor relationships, develop technical documentation, and support system implementations in AWS and on‑premises environments. The role also contributes to DevOps automation, cloud infrastructure, test automation, and application lifecycle management while ensuring adherence to GxP, SDLC, and organizational compliance requirements.

What will you do:

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver planned solutions:

• Product Management: Understand business problems, use cases, and timelines to deliver commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) products or solutions.
• Vendors and Partners: Document product capabilities, configuration requirements, architecture, security, installation prerequisites, and application support needs for AWS or on‑premises deployments.
• Engineering: Contribute to the development, review, and approval of architecture artifacts.
• Quality and Computer System Validation: Develop and review Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) artifacts for regulated applications operating under GLP or GCP.
• Business and End Users: Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and production operations. Develop support contracts and transfer application knowledge.

Technical Solutioning

• Evaluate solution options, trade‑offs, and feasibility with engineering teams.
• Contribute to system design discussions, integration strategies, and API contracts.
• Drive configuration, parameterization, and environment readiness for releases.

Vendor and Partner Engagement

• Serve as the technical point of contact for vendors and partners.
• Document technical needs, integration requirements, and deployment prerequisites.
• Review vendor architectures, security and compliance artifacts, data models, and API specifications; identify gaps and mitigation actions.
• Coordinate technical due diligence, proof of concepts, and interoperability testing.
• Deploy vendor products in the environment and migrate them to higher environments, including SIT, UAT, and Production.

Cloud Engineering and DevOps

• Design, build, and document CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools for builds, tests, security scans, and deployments in the AWS environment.
• Design and build Terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision, pause, and terminate AWS resources.
• Automate configuration management and provisioning with Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Implement guardrails such as branch protection, code review workflows, quality gates, and rollback strategies.
• Collaborate with platform teams on deployment standards, secrets management, and approvals.

Custom Development and Integrations

• Design, build, test, and document custom scripts and components using Python and JavaScript.
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