{"id":1427576,"url":"https://alion.io/job/merck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2","title":"Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering","company":{"id":3768,"name":"Merck & Co.","domain":"msd.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/msd","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":123,"ghost_share":0.008,"stale_share":0.122,"repost_share":0.089,"time_to_fill_p50_days":15,"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"}},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Rahway, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":117000,"max":184200,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":184200},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Unix","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false},{"name":"Active Directory","optional":true},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":true},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":true},{"name":"IAM","optional":true},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":true},{"name":"ITIL","optional":true},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":true},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Red Hat","optional":true},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":true}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-23T16:23:50Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-23T16:23:50Z","days_open":25,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":25},"description":"Job Description\nPrivileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer (R3)\nHashiCorp Vault & CI/CD Automation\nRole Summary\nJoin our IT Risk Management & Security team and play a key role in protecting a global enterprise’s most critical systems, accounts, and secrets. As a Privileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer, you will design, deploy, and operate HashiCorp Vault and privileged access capabilities that reduce cyber risk and enable secure, automated secrets delivery. This role offers the opportunity to help shape enterprise privileged access and secrets management capabilities while working across identity, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, implement, and support HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.\nDevelop reusable patterns, standards, and onboarding guidance for HashiCorp Vault and secrets management across application, infrastructure, and automation teams.\nSupport HashiCorp Vault integrations with CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, automation workflows, and application delivery processes.\nEnable secure injection, retrieval, rotation, and lifecycle management of secrets used by build, release, and runtime environments.\nIntegrate PAM with enterprise applications, infrastructure and cloud platforms, and APIs.\nTroubleshoot complex technical issues and support production operations.\nDevelop automation, standards, and operational processes that improve security, efficiency, and improve audit readiness.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience), preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.\n5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments, including integrations with CI/CD tools, automation frameworks, APIs, and application deployment workflows.\nStrong understanding of secrets lifecycle management including dynamic secrets, secrets engines, and auth methods for service accounts, workloads, applications, and non-human identities.\nPractical knowledge of privileged account management techniques: vaulting, password rotation, secrets management, least-privilege access, and service account security.\nExperience integrating security platforms with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, cloud services, applications, and APIs.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, adapt to change, and work effectively within large, global, matrixed organizations.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and explain technical concepts to varied technical and non-technical audiences.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies.\nHands-on experience with identity platforms such as Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, cloud identity management, etc.\nFamiliarity with ServiceNow for change and incident management and experience automating tasks with PowerShell or similar technologies.\nFamiliarity with NIST, ITIL, or related security frameworks.\nRelevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, or similar credentials.\nExperience in healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.\nKnowledge of Zero Trust principles, cloud security, and modern identity security practices.\nRequired Skills:\nAccess Management Software, Access Management Software, Azure Active Directory (AD), Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, HashiCorp Vault, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Assurance, Information Security, IT Security Architecture, Linux, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Red Hat Ansible, Security Analysis, Security Analytics, Security Controls, Security Evaluations, Security Fundamentals {+ 9 more}Preferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nUS and Puerto Rico Residents Only:\nOur company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.\nAs an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Asa federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:\nEEOC Know Your Rights\nEEOC GINA Supplement\nWe are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.\nLearn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts\nThe salary range for this role is\n$117,000.00 - $184,200.00This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.\nThe successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.\nWe offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.\nYou can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.\nSan Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & 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.\nEmployee Status:\nRegularRelocation:\nVISA Sponsorship:\nTravel Requirements:\nFlexible Work Arrangements:\nHybridShift:\nValid Driving License:\nHazardous Material(s):\nJob Posting End Date:\n10/12/2026*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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8234,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"Puerto Rico","iso":"PR","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Information Security","Financial Services","Biologics & Biosimilars"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T00:16:58Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-23T16:23:50Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":184200,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/merck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/merck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T15:01:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":19918,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3768},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3768"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmerck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmerck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmerck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/merck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmerck-co-senior-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering-2"}]}