Senior Platform Cybersecurity Engineer

Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme; Rahway (NJ); On-site; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering to secure its strategic enterprise platforms through hands-on security engineering, automation, and risk reduction. You will partner with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls and standardize governance across critical business platforms.

The role demands 5+ years in cybersecurity engineering, cloud/platform security, and DevSecOps, with hands-on experience implementing controls in

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

DevSecOps

AI security

Security automation

Threat hunting

Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Security controls

Platform security

Security monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

APIs

Cloud security

IAM

Security automation

Job description

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering to secure its strategic enterprise platforms through hands-on security engineering, automation, and risk reduction. You will partner with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls and standardize governance across critical business platforms.

The role demands 5+ years in cybersecurity engineering, cloud/platform security, and DevSecOps, with hands-on experience implementing controls in