Senior Platform Security Engineer — Automation & Resilience

Merck; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering in Rahway, NJ. You will hands-on secure our strategic enterprise platforms, embedding security controls, automating processes, and reducing risk across SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, and more.

You’ll partner with platform teams to strengthen resilience, governance, and secure platform operations while contributing to standards and best practices. Hybrid work arrangement available in a regulated enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience.
• Fluent with modern AI technologies and enterprise use cases.
• Able to apply AI to security engineering, automation, and investigations.
• Knowledge of AI security risks and secure AI adoption.
• Hands-on security controls in PaaS/SaaS/enterprise platforms.
• Experience with identity security, logging, monitoring, and remediation.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, APIs, CI/CD, and cloud-native tech.
• Strong troubleshooting and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, and maintain security controls across strategic platforms.
• Support platform assurance through security assessments and risk reduction.
• Integrate security capabilities into platform delivery and CI/CD workflows.
• Develop automation and reusable security patterns.
• Monitor security posture, investigate gaps, and drive remediation.
• Partner with platform teams to improve resilience and secure adoption.
• Contribute to security standards and engineering best practices.

Skills

5+ years cybersecurity engineering

AI technologies

AI applications in security

AI security risks

Security controls

Identity security

Security automation

Logging and monitoring

Vulnerability remediation

Kubernetes

APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native technologies

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Regulated enterprise environments

Education

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

Tools

SAP

Salesforce

Databricks

Microsoft 365

ServiceNow

Veeva

AWS security

Azure security

CISSP

CCSP

GIAC

Job description

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering in Rahway, NJ. You will hands-on secure our strategic enterprise platforms, embedding security controls, automating processes, and reducing risk across SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, and more.

You’ll partner with platform teams to strengthen resilience, governance, and secure platform operations while contributing to standards and best practices. Hybrid work arrangement available in a regulated enterprise environment.