Sr. Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision care

401(k) retirement

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering to hands-on secure our strategic enterprise platforms. You will embed security controls, automate security patterns, and improve platform resilience across SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Microsoft 365, and more.

You will partner with platform teams to drive secure adoption, perform risk reduction, and ensure compliance readiness. Strong AI security experience and CI/CD integration are highly valued.

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

Cloud Security

DevSecOps

IAM

Security Analytics

Incident Response

Security Engineering

Kubernetes

APIs

CI/CD

PaaS

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Role Summary

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.

Key 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.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Required Skills

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}

US And Puerto Rico Residents Only

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.

Requirements

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Salary

The salary range for this role is

$117,000.00 - $184,200.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this 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.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include:

• medical
• dental
• vision healthcare
• other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days

More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

San Francisco Residents Only

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Los Angeles Residents Only

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

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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.

Employee Status

Regular

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Job Posting End Date

09/29/2026

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Requisition ID

R418232