# Associate Director Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description We are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, and automate security controls across enterprise cloud environments. This role will partner with our Cloud, Application, DevOps, and Security teams to ensure cloud services are deployed securely and consistently. Primary Responsibilities: Design and implement security controls across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Secure cloud identity, networking, workloads, data, containers, and APIs. Build security guardrails using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and policy-as-code. Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment processes. Identify and remediate cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, excessive permissions, and attack paths. Support cloud security monitoring, logging, threat detection, and incident response. Partner with engineering teams to provide practical security guidance and architecture reviews. Required Minimum Skills: Bachelor's degree required Minimum 8 years of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP architecture and security experience. Hands-on knowledge of IAM, cloud networking, encryption, secrets management, and workload security. Experience with Infrastructure as Code tec

- **Id**: 3778540
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-co-associate-director-cybersecurity-engineering-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US, PR
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:40:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6653
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Veterinary Medicine, Biologics & Biosimilars

## Company

- **Id**: 3768
- **Name**: Merck & Co.
- **Domain**: msd.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/msd>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 177
- **Ghost share**: 0.034
- **Stale share**: 0.119
- **Repost share**: 0.181
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142400
- **Max**: 224100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 224100

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Wiz** — Optional: no
- **CIS Benchmarks** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Puerto Rico** — Iso: PR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T00:06:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 131; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 131 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 224100
- **Is top pay**: no

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