Specialist, Cybersecurity 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

We are seeking an Engineering Specialist to design, engineer, and operate enterprise-scale XDR and SIEM platforms across Microsoft and Google security ecosystems. This role sits at the intersection of security platform engineering, detection engineering, and operational resilience, with a focus on improving threat detection quality, response effectiveness, data fidelity, and platform reliability within a global enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on engineering expertise, an operations-first mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively with SOC (CFC), cloud, identity, and infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Operations

• Engineer, operate, and continuously optimize Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR (Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Office, and Cloud).

• Engineer and operate Google Security Operations (Chronicle SIEM) to support high-volume security telemetry ingestion, analytics, and long-term retention.

• Design and maintain scalable ingestion architectures, including normalization, enrichment, routing, and retention across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Ensure platform reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and operational stability.

Detection Engineering & Threat Response Enablement

• Support detection tuning activities to reduce false positives, improve signal-to-noise ratio, and align with SOC workflows.

• Provide deep platform and data expertise to support incident investigation, threat hunting, and response activities.

• Align detection logic with MITRE ATT&CK and threat-informed defense principles.

Data Quality, Telemetry & Observability

• Support onboarding, validation, parsing, and ongoing quality monitoring of security telemetry sources.

• Partner with application, platform, and infrastructure teams to identify and close logging and visibility gaps.

• Establish and enforce data quality standards to ensure reliable detection, investigation, and reporting.

• Ensure logging and monitoring practices meet internal security standards and regulatory requirements.

Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Implement automation for detection lifecycle management, enrichment, and response orchestration using SOAR and native platform capabilities.

• Drive standardization, documentation, and runbook development to improve operational maturity and resiliency.

• Contribute to platform roadmaps, reliability improvements, and technical debt reduction initiatives.

Collaboration & Governance

• Work closely with CFC/SOC, Cloud Security, Identity, Infrastructure, and Compliance teams.

• Support audit and compliance activities, including SOX and regulatory log-retention requirements.

• Provide technical input into onboarding decisions, platform changes, and security architecture reviews.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Detection Engineering, or SOC Engineering roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR.

• Experience with Google Security Operations (Chronicle SIEM) or equivalent large-scale cloud SIEM platforms.

• Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) and experience authoring structured detection logic.

• Solid understanding of cloud security (Azure and/or GCP), identity, endpoint, and network telemetry.

• Experience operating security platforms in large, complex enterprise environments.

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 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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