Platform Engineer

Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme; Rahway, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Pension and health insurance

Job summary

Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain data platforms with emphasis on automation, security, and scalability.

You will develop Terraform modules, manage multi-environment deployments, and collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver reliable platforms. Hybrid work option, competitive compensation, and extensive professional growth opportunities available.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or technology field.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with IaC Terraform, SQL and databases, analytics platforms and REST APIs.
• Strong cloud knowledge, AWS core services and security concepts.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD, and modern product development principles.

Responsibilities

• Define platform standards and manage Terraform modules and state.
• Provision and configure environments in multi-account/multi-environment setups.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and platform configurations.
• Document platform design, IaC patterns, and runbooks for security and compliance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align architecture with business goals.
• Integrate platform with data governance tooling and ensure scalable delivery.

Skills

Agile Scrum Development

AWS

Data Engineering

Platform Development

Platform Management

Product Architecture

Software Development

Solution Architecture

Testing

Education

Bachelors in IT/CS

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Trino

Databricks

Redshift

Grafana

Job description

Job Description

As a Platform Engineer you will design, deploy, and maintain predominantly data platforms. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable solutions. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver platforms that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end-users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and technical leads,you will help to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs/requirements and implement them accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Participate in defining the platform standards.
• Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi‑account/multi‑environment deployments.
• Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration
• Create and maintain clear documentation: platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security and compliance.
• Develop, verify, test, document, amend and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls).
• Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well‑engineered and secure outcome.
• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade‑offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product and company goals.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience working with IaC Terraform, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools and REST API.
• Very good Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with good understanding of AWS core service like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment.
• Familiarity with modern product development principles – Agile, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Familiarity with development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization.
• Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala, R, Java) is a nice to have.
• Any experience with networking principles is also welcomed.
• Experience with Trino, Databricks, Redshift, Grafana is a huge benefit.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave,5sick days,15days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually,40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities,12weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

Required Skills:

• Agile Scrum Development
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Data Engineering
• Platform Development
• Platform Management
• Product Architecture
• Software Development
• Solution Architecture
• Testing

Employee Status:

Regular

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Job Posting End Date:

10/14/2026

Requisition ID:R414723

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