Associate Manager, Infrastructure Engineer, Data Center Networking

Job Description

. Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Secondary Language(s) : Associate Manager, Infrastructure Engineer, Data Center Networking 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 worlds greatest health threats. Our Technology Centers 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 Centers 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 Center 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 Centers. Role Overview An Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and supporting the infrastructure that enables an organizations IT systems and services to run smoothly. This includes working with hardware, networking, virtualization, cloud environments, and security systems to ensure the organizations IT infrastructure is efficient, reliable, and scalable. Infrastructure engineers often work closely with software engineers, IT support teams, and system administrators to optimize performance, mitigate risks, and deliver high-quality services to end-users. What will you do in this role: We are seeking a highly critical technical specialist, innovator Infrastructure Data Center Networking Engineer that is passionate about collaborating across the various IT divisions and focused on building a best in class, automated and secure Data center environment. What you will do: Perform network setup of Data Center network infrastructure based on provided low level design Understand and use Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Python, Terraform) to implement and operate Data Center Optimize the network to improve convergence, performance and latency Maintain updated schematic diagrams for infrastructure and low-level architecture design diagram. Collaborate in Proof of concept and testing of network solutions. Maintain documentation related to network configuration, policies, procedures and service records. Provides support on a world-wide basis. What should you have: Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream. 1+ years of hands-on experience in Data Center Technologies (Cisco Nexus and ACI) and Routing & Switching (VLAN, STP, QoS, VPC/MLAG, HSRP/VRRP, NAT, IPSec, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, VxLAN EVPN ) Having a DevOps mindset with good understanding of DevOps principles & best practices. Knowledge of other Networking Products (Cisco FTD, Palo Alto, F5 LTM and GTM, Infoblox) and their integration in a Data Center environment. Coding experience to automate and simplify IT processes and Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Python, Terraform) Experience working according ITIL processes, Agile delivery and SDLC. Able to manage simple tasks and projects Good communication and stakeholder management skills with internal and external parties Experience in multicultural communication and solid presentation skills 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 worlds 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: #HYDIT2025 Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Employee Status: Regular Relocation: VISA Sponsorship: Travel Requirements: Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Valid Driving License: Hazardous Material(s): Job Posting End Date: 04/5/2025 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.