DevXOps Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

MSD Malaysia; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer in Rahway, NJ to design, build, and operate scalable, secure platforms for product development teams.

You will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and automation to empower developers with self-service capabilities and robust observability. The role emphasizes IaC, Kubernetes and containerized workloads, and collaboration across teams to ensure high availability and compliance with security standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform/DevOps/SRE roles.
• Hands-on AWS design with EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch.
• Strong Linux scripting (Python or similar).
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Ansible and IaC (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform solutions using IaC (Terraform/Ansible).
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC).
• Implement monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Containerize solutions with Kubernetes/Docker and manage deployments.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

AWS

Python

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Monitoring

Education

Highschool Diploma Required

Tools

JFrog Artifactory

JFrog Xray

GitHub Actions

OpenShift

Job description

Job Description

As a Platform Engineer on our DevXOps Platform team, you'll play a crucial role in building, maintaining, and evolving the foundational platforms that empower our product development teams. Our different platform ecosystem includes technologies like JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, SonarQube, GitHub Actions Runners, Crossplane, Backstage, and Ansible Automation Platform. You'll work at the intersection of infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native technologies, and DevOps principles, designing, building, and supporting highly available, scalable, and secure platforms. Your efforts will enable our development teams with robust CI/CD pipelines, slick self-service capabilities, and comprehensive observability solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Design & Implementation: Design and implement robust platform solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Collaboration & Performance: Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability across our platforms.
• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Leverage your strong understanding of AWS architecture and components(EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC networking, CloudWatch/CloudTrail) to design, implement, and manage our cloud infrastructure efficiently.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Implement and manage comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, and cloud-native services like CloudWatch and Log Analytics. You'll also monitor and troubleshoot complex issues across our platform stack.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design, build, and maintain robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions. This includes managing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation and promoting a culture of automation.
• Containerized Solutions: Design, implement, and maintain containerized solutions using Kubernetes and Docker, including managing deployments on EKS and other Kubernetes environments.
• Architectural Contributions: Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decisions for the DXO Platform, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and best practices.
• Automation & Self-Service Enablement: Develop and maintain automation solutions using tools like Ansible, Crossplane, and custom scripts. Empower development teams with self-service capabilities, enabling them to provision resources and deploy applications efficiently.
• Production Support: Provide expert support for production systems, ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal performance for all our platforms.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain security best practices across all platforms, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and industry standards.
• Accessibility & Automation: Automate testing procedures and document defects to ensure accessibility standards are met across our platforms.

Education Requirements

Highschool Diploma Required

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.
• Proven hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating production systems on AWS and familiarity with Azure.
• Deep proficiency in Linux and strong scripting skills in Python or similar languages.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD methodologies and tools, specifically GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (e.g., Podman, Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Strong grasp of infrastructure-as-code principles with experience in tools like Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), CloudWatch, and Log Analytics.
• Familiarity with version control systems, especially Git, and practices like GitOps and semantic versioning.
• Familiarity with Artifact Management like JFrog Artifactory or Nexus.
• Understanding of network protocols and security best practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, write clear documentation, and present technical concepts effectively.

Soft Skills

• Problem‑Solving: Strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Collaboration: A collaborative mindset, eager to work effectively within a team and across departments.
• Continuous Learning: Proactive in learning new technologies and adapting to evolving industry trends.
• Adaptability: Ability to thrive and contribute effectively in fast‑paced environments.
• Passion: A genuine passion for building and optimizing robust, scalable platforms.

Preferred Experience and Skills Certifications

• Certifications in AWS, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory and JFrog Xray administration.
• Knowledge of OpenShift Operators and Kubernetes CRDs.
• Experience integrating ServiceNow or other ITSM platforms into CI/CD workflows.
• Working knowledge of Backstage for service catalog and integration.
• Terraform, Packer or Crossplane expertise.

#MSJR Required Skills: Automation Solutions, Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Cloud Infrastructure, Continuous Deployment, Design Applications, Git Version Control System, Incident Management, Information Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), IT Security Best Practices, IT Service Management (ITSM), JFrog, Learning New Technologies, Platform Engineering, Production Support, Release Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration, System Designs

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The salary range for this role is $87,300.00 - $137,400.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.

• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.

More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

San Francisco Residents Only

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Los Angeles Residents Only

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Employee Status: Regular

Relocation: No relocation

VISA Sponsorship: No

Travel Requirements: No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid

Shift: Not Indicated

Valid Driving License: No

Hazardous Material(s): n/a

Job Posting End Date: 08/18/2026

The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.