Senior Cybersecurity Platform Engineer — AI & DevSecOps

Merck & Co.; West Point (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co. is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering to secure our strategic enterprise platforms through hands-on engineering, automation, and risk reduction. You will partner with platform teams to embed security controls and sustain trusted platform operations across critical business systems.

The role requires experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, and DevSecOps, with a focus on AI-enabled security and secure adoption across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, platform security, or DevSecOps.
• Fluent in modern AI technologies and practical enterprise use cases.
• Able to apply AI to improve cybersecurity engineering, automation, investigations, and operational efficiency.
• Understands emerging AI security risks and supports secure adoption of AI capabilities across strategic platforms.
• Hands-on experience implementing security controls in PaaS, SaaS, or enterprise platforms.
• Experience with identity security, security automation, logging, monitoring, and vulnerability remediation.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud-native technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, and maintain security controls across strategic platforms including SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Veeva, AI platforms, and enterprise SaaS/PaaS services.
• Support platform assurance through security assessments, control validation, risk reduction, and compliance readiness activities.
• Integrate security capabilities into platform delivery, CI/CD workflows, and operational processes.
• Develop automation, controls-as-code, and reusable security patterns to improve platform security and operational efficiency.
• Monitor platform security posture, investigate gaps, and drive remediation of findings.
• Partner with platform teams to improve resilience, onboarding experience, and secure adoption.
• Contribute to security standards, operational procedures, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Cloud security

Platform security

DevSecOps

Identity access management

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Merck & Co. is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering to secure our strategic enterprise platforms through hands-on engineering, automation, and risk reduction. You will partner with platform teams to embed security controls and sustain trusted platform operations across critical business systems.

The role requires experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, and DevSecOps, with a focus on AI-enabled security and secure adoption across platforms.