# Sr. Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description Role Summary The Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering is a hands-on security engineer responsible for securing our Company's strategic enterprise platforms through implementation, automation, assurance, and continuous risk reduction. This role partners with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls, improve resilience, standardize governance, and maintain trusted platform operations across critical business platforms. Key Responsibilities Engineer, implement, and maintain security controls across strategic platforms including SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Veeva, AI platforms, and enterprise SaaS/PaaS services. Support platform assurance through security assessments, control validation, risk reduction, and compliance readiness activities. Integrate security capabilities into platform delivery, CI/CD workflows, and operational processes. Develop automation, controls-as-code, and reusable security patterns to improve platform security and operational efficiency. Monitor platform security posture, investigate gaps, and drive remediation of findings. Partner with platform teams to improve r

- **Id**: 1044203
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-co-sr-specialist-cybersecurity-engineering>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Prague, Czech Republic, United States
- **Countries**: CZ, US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T21:06:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:29:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7758
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **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**: 212
- **Ghost share**: 0.028
- **Stale share**: 0.146
- **Repost share**: 0.203
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 117000
- **Max**: 184200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184200

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: no
- **Veeva** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **IAM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **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: 2026-09-18T21:06:45Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-25T05:51:47Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-26T00:54:11Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-23T16:23:50Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-27T11:13:17Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 141; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 141 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.646
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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