Manager, Virtual Application Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering
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
Our Company is seeking an Application Virtualization Engineer to assume a leading role in evolving our cloud technology framework. You will collaborate with business technology partners to define the technology roadmap and deploy Azure Virtual Desktops, AWS Workspaces, and MS RDS as cloud solutions to expand our digital portfolio.The ideal candidate will leverage their hands-on experience to lead engineering design, prioritize tasks, and collaborate with development teams, ensuring scalability and security. Candidates with experience with migration from Citrix to Azure are welcome. Your expertise will be crucial in orchestrating end-to-end cloud delivery strategies, from requirements gathering to solution documentation. By joining Our Company, you will play a pivotal role in establishing an agile, secure, and innovative cloud environment that advances Our Company's commitment to global healthcare.
What Will You Do In This Role
- Design & Implement Engineer, implement, and manage cloud-based solutions on Azure Virtual Desktops, AWS Workspaces, and MS Terminal Services, collaborating with cross-functional teams to virtualize applications and provide expertise on best practices for performance, optimization, cost, and scalability.
- Secure, Monitor and Optimize Administer, troubleshoot Windows-based systems, maintain high-security standards, and evaluate new technologies to enhance user experience while ensuring high availability, reliability, and security across cloud environments.
- Automate Leverage AWS and Azure automation to provision monthly images, ensuring adherence to best practices for cloud and security, and deploy infrastructure on Azure and AWS using tools including Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Azure CLI, PowerShell, and GitHub.
- Document and Support Develop and uphold comprehensive documentation for system configurations, deployment processes, and procedures utilizing tools such as Confluence and Jira, which entails generating and monitoring issues for efficient project management and timely resolution. Act as a subject matter expert, offering direction, education, and assistance to foster the enhancement of team’s knowledge, skills, and competencies.
- Learning and Development Enhance proficiency in Azure and AWS technologies by pursuing ongoing education and obtaining certifications and engage with partners like Microsoft and Amazon for technical assistance and to keep current on newest product developments and updates.
What Should You Have
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
- 3+ years hands-on experience engineering, implementing, and implementing and managing virtual environments including Microsoft RDS and Azure.
- 2+ years of practical experience in cloud engineering and architecting within Azure, AWS, and MS RDS ecosystems, emphasizing virtual services, application delivery, networking, and security.
- Self-starter with capacity to prioritize and multitask effectively without significant supervision, coupled with a proven ability to troubleshoot, and solve complex issues.
- Outstanding communication, documentation, and negotiation skills are essential.
- Preferred candidates will have certifications in Microsoft, Azure, and/or AWS.
- ITIL Foundation certification is expected.
- Proven capability to align technical decisions with organizational strategy.
- B.S. required.
Professional Competencies
- Cross-functional Collaboration Exhibits expertise in building relationships and networks across organizational and geographical boundaries.
- Adaptive Strategy Shows adeptness in revising work processes to accommodate evolving demands and shifts in roles, as well as in assessing and applying new concepts for feasibility and implementation.
- Analytical Problem-Solving Ability to identify and merge patterns, trends, and discrepancies from various data sets to understand their wider impact and adept at rapidly pinpointing the root of issues to formulate creative resolutions.
- Delivery and Execution Established track record of finalizing and delivering projects punctually and within budget.
- Initiative and Autonomy Capable of independently initiating action and navigating through challenging work conditions with minimal oversight.
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
Availability Management, Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Client-Centric, Cloud Virtualization, Computer Science, Configuration Management (CM), Design Applications, Incident Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure Engineering, IT Infrastructure Design, IT Service Management (ITSM), Management Process, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory), Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Procurement, Product Lifecycle, Product Planning, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration {+ 2 more}
Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
08/25/2025
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Requisition ID
R355277
