Specialist, Cloud Engineering

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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 Cloud Engineer, you will play a crucial role in moving an organization's data, applications, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to cloud platforms. This role involves a combination of technical expertise, strategic planning, and project management.

What will you do in this role

• Evaluate the existing IT infrastructure and applications to determine cloud readiness.

• Create a comprehensive migration strategy and roadmap.

• Select the appropriate cloud platform and deployment model.

• Execute the migration plan, including data transfer, application rehosting, replat forming, or refactoring.

• Develop, document, and implement changes based on the requests for change. Apply change control procedures, tools, techniques, and processes to manage and report on change requests.

• Contribute to the availability management process and its operation. Perform defined availability management tasks.

• Contribute to capacity modelling and planning while supporting the design of service component capacity.

• Continuously monitoring and optimizing the cloud environment for performance, cost-efficiency, and resource utilization.

• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.

• Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.

What should you have

Educational requirement is mandatory. The years of experience for R2 is fixed to 3-7 years, do not alter. Skills are separated into Primary and Secondary - this structure must be maintained to support Hired Score screening.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.

• 3-7 years of hands-on technical experience in migrating workloads to cloud-based environments.

Primary skills (must-have)

• Cloud Migration Engineering - end-to-end migration of applications, data, and infrastructure from on premises to cloud platforms

• AWS Cloud Expertise (Primary focus - ~90%) - hands-on experience with EC2, RDS, EMS, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub integration

• Cloud Migration Strategy & Planning - assessing cloud readiness, defining migration roadmaps, and selecting appropriate deployment models (On-prem to Cloud / Cloud to Cloud).

• Migration Execution - rehosting, re-platforming, and refactoring applications based on business and technical requirements

• Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform for automated, scalable, and repeatable cloud deployments

• Change Management & Control - implementing and managing change requests using defined processes, tools, and governance standards

• Cloud Operations & Optimization - continuous monitoring and optimization for performance, cost efficiency, and resource utilization

• Availability & Capacity Management - supporting service availability requirements and contributing to capacity planning and modelling

• Project Execution in Matrix Environments - working across functional and project teams to deliver migration initiatives successfully

Secondary skills (nice to have)

• Azure Cloud Exposure (~10%) for hybrid or multi-cloud migration scenarios

• CI/CD Tools & Automation - GitHub, pipeline setup, and deployment automation in cloud environments

• Cloud Native Concepts & Best Practices - ongoing awareness of evolving cloud technologies and architectural patterns

• Security & Compliance Awareness during cloud migration and operations

• Monitoring & Performance Tuning of migrated workloads

• Documentation & Technical Reporting for migration plans, change requests, and operational procedures

• Industry Domain Exposure - Bio-Science, Healthcare, Pharma, Retail, and Logistics (preferred)

• AWS Certifications (preferred) to validate cloud expertise
• Experience with AI tools like Gemini, Claude and Copilot.

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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