Job Description Associate Specialist, Cybersecurity Operations 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 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 As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect the organization's computer systems, networks, and data from cyber threats. This role will involve a combination of technologies, processes, and practices designed to safeguard data, applications, and networks from threats like malware, phishing, and data breaches. You will be tasked with identifying vulnerabilities, supporting the response to incidents, and ensuring that security protocols and controls are adhered to. Your role is vital in safeguarding critical assets and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards. What Will You Do In This Role Collaborate with product teams to enforce application security best practices, conduct reviews, perform scans and assist in threat modeling to identify and mitigate security risks throughout the development lifecycle. Contribute with penetration testing efforts to evaluate the security posture of applications and containers, providing detailed reports on findings and working with development teams to remediate identified issues. Collaborate to the oversight of security-related bugs and vulnerabilities using tracking systems. Help prioritize security issues based on risk and impact and ensuring that reported issues are triaged and addressed in a timely manner. Contribute to the creation and delivery of training materials for the workforce to raise awareness and increase adoption of application security best practices, cloud security best practices, including secure usage of cloud applications and availability of compensating controls. Help maintain and monitor security tools and dashboards, ensuring that applications deployed in our environments adhere to organizational security standards and compliance requirements. Follow standard approaches and established design patterns to create new designs for systems or system components. Identify and resolve minor design issues. Monitor and log the actual service provided, compared to that required by service level agreements. Assist in maintaining security infrastructure and performing system updates. Investigate minor security breaches in accordance with established procedures. Assist users in defining their access rights and privileges and perform non-standard operational security tasks. Resolve security events and operational security issues. Work closely with cross-functional Infrastructure teams on Automation and Orchestration. Create and document detailed designs for simple software applications or components. Apply agreed modelling techniques, standards, patterns, and tools. Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager. What Should You Have Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream. 3+ years of hands-on experience working with network protocols, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption technologies, and endpoint security solutions. Proficiency in security tools in the areas of cloud, application, endpoint, network or identity, vulnerability scanners, and malware analysis platforms. Understanding of OWASP most 10 security risks and mitigation strategies, relevant NIST standards, and Zero Trust principles. Working experience in cloud environments AWS must have and good to have Azure, or GCP. Familiarity with software development/delivery lifecycle and related technologies Familiarity with programming/scripting languages like Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, JSON, PowerShell, or JavaScript for automating tasks. Knowledge of authentication methods, identity management, and security access protocols (e.g., SSO, MFA, LDAP). Ideally AWS certified. Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written). Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, CompTIA Security+) are often required or highly desirable. Proven record of delivering high-quality results. Product and customer-centric approach. Innovative thinking, experimental mindset. 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. #HYDIT2025 Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully 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 Relocation VISA Sponsorship Travel Requirements Flexible Work Arrangements Hybrid Shift Valid Driving License Hazardous Material(s) Required Skills Design Applications, Information Security, Security Operations, SLA Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs, Technical Advice, Vulnerability Scanning Preferred Skills Job Posting End Date 07/2/2025 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. Requisition ID R342303 Show more Show less
