Sr. Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering
Merck
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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.
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Job description
The Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering is a hands-on security engineer responsible for securing our Company's strategic enterprise platforms through implementation, automation, assurance, and continuous risk reduction. This role partners with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls, improve resilience, standardize governance, and maintain trusted platform operations across critical business platforms.
The Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering is a hands-on security engineer responsible for securing our Company's strategic enterprise platforms through implementation, automation, assurance, and continuous risk reduction. This role partners with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls, improve resilience, standardize governance, and maintain trusted platform operations across critical business platforms.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience supporting SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Veeva, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Experience with AI security, software supply chain security, and platform governance.
- CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, GIAC, AWS, or Azure security certifications.
- Experience in regulated enterprise environments.
Certificate Services, Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Corporate Security Management, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, DevSecOps, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Assurance, Information Security, IT Security Architecture, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Security Analysis, Security Analytics, Security Audit, Security Automation, Security Compliance, Security Controls, Security Engineering {+ 10 more}
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USA - New Jersey - Rahway
The salary range for the primary location of this role is
$117,000.00 - $184,200.00
This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https //jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.
Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
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