Job Description

Senior Manager - Dev SecOps Lead Engineer - Research & Development

The Opportunity

Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

The Research and Development Sciences value team in, Research and Development IT brings together product management, engineering, and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists' ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary DevSecOps Lead Engineer to champion and integrate security best practices throughout our software development lifecycle (SDLC) and cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and leading our DevSecOps strategy, ensuring our applications and infrastructure are secure by design and remain resilient against threats. This role requires a blend of strong technical leadership, hands-on engineering skills, and a passion for automating security controls within CI/CD pipelines.

What will you do in this role

Lead & Strategize: Develop, implement, and champion the company's DevSecOps strategy, standards, and roadmap, fostering a security-first culture across engineering teams.

Automate Security Integration: Design, integrate, and manage automated security tools and processes (SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning) within CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Secure Infrastructure & Containers: Implement and enforce security best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Mentor & Collaborate: Lead and mentor engineers on secure coding and DevSecOps practices; collaborate effectively with Development, Operations, and Security teams.

Monitor & Respond: Implement security monitoring and alerting; contribute to threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, and ensure compliance alignment.

Evaluate & Improve: Continuously evaluate and implement new security technologies and processes to enhance the DevSecOps toolchain and overall security posture.

What should you have

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent experience.  

7+ years of Proven experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Security Engineering role.

2+ years of Demonstrable experience specifically focused on DevSecOps practices and principles.

Relevant certifications from AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional.

Experience with security information and event management (SIEM) systems.

Strong experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineering teams.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools - GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.

Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools - Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.

Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their security services.

Experience integrating and utilizing security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, SCA,).

Strong scripting skills - Python, Bash, Go

Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) security.

Knowledge of network security concepts (firewalls, VPNs, WAFs) and common application security vulnerabilities .

Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

AWS Devops, AWS OpsWorks, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Terraform, Terraform (Software), Testing

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

06/30/2025

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Requisition ID:R346607