Hybrid DevXOps Platform Engineer: Cloud Native & CI/CD

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

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the DevXOps Platform team in a hybrid role in the United States. You will design, build, and operate scalable platform services that empower product teams with robust CI/CD pipelines, self-service tooling, and comprehensive observability.

You will work across IaC, cloud-native technologies, and security best practices to maintain high availability, automation, and efficient incident response.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production systems on AWS; familiarity with Azure preferred.
• Strong Linux proficiency and scripting in Python or similar languages.
• Hands-on CI/CD design using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI; experience with IaC is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust platform solutions using Terraform and Ansible.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure performance, scalability, reliability.
• Leverage AWS components (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC) to build cloud infrastructure.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and SDLC documentation.
• Create containerized solutions with Kubernetes and Docker; manage deployments on EKS and other clusters.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for the DevXOps Platform.
• Develop automation and self-service capabilities for provisioning resources.
• Provide production support ensuring high availability and security compliance.
• Automate testing and document defects to meet accessibility standards.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps practices

Linux scripting

Python scripting

CI/CD knowledge

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Git

GitOps

Observability

CloudWatch

Education

Highschool Diploma

Tools

JFrog Artifactory

JFrog Xray

SonarQube

GitHub Actions Runners

Crossplane

Backstage

Ansible Automation Platform

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

Merck is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the DevXOps Platform team in a hybrid role in the United States. You will design, build, and operate scalable platform services that empower product teams with robust CI/CD pipelines, self-service tooling, and comprehensive observability.

You will work across IaC, cloud-native technologies, and security best practices to maintain high availability, automation, and efficient incident response.