# Associate Director, DevOps

Job Description APEX DevOps Associate Director As the APEX DevOps Associate Director, you will lead DevOps strategy, continuous delivery, and platform automation within our APEX (AI, Process, and EXperience) organization. In this high-impact leadership role, you will champion a modern, AI-augmented engineering culture-driving enterprise CI/CD pipelines, release orchestration, and developer enablement across a dynamic technology landscape in support of our mission to deliver innovative health solutions. Key Responsibilities APEX DevOps Strategy & Vision: Define, govern, and execute the enterprise DevOps roadmap tailored for APEX (AI, Process, and EXperience) initiatives, accelerating delivery velocity, quality, and platform resilience across global product squads. AI-Augmented Engineering & Modern Practices: Foster an AI-native operational culture across the engineering organization, leveraging AI coding assistants, automated test generation, and agentic workflows to streamline deployment pipelines and enhance developer productivity. Executive Alignment & Value Realization: Prepare and present executive summaries, capability roadmaps, and delivery metrics (such as DORA metrics and

- **Id**: 4280633
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-co-associate-director-devops>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Rahway, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T20:25:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T20:25:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10351
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Veterinary Medicine, Vaccines, Biologics & Biosimilars, Oncology Therapeutics

## 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**: 187
- **Ghost share**: 0.021
- **Stale share**: 0.16
- **Repost share**: 0.193
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Canary Release** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Veeva** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **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: 2026-11-13T20:25:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 129; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 129 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:21:58Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 224100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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