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 Platform Engineer you will design deploy and maintain predominantly data platforms This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient reliable solutions You will use your expertise in requirements analysis programming languages development methodologies and tools to build and deliver platforms that meet the needs of businesses organizations or end-users You will work with other engineers product managers and technical leads you will help to design systems determine functional and non-functional needs requirements and implement them accordingly You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team What will you do in this role Participate in defining the platform standards Author review and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi account multi environment deployments Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration Create and maintain clear documentation platform design Infrastructure as Code patterns operational runbooks best practices regarding coding security and compliance Develop verify test document amend and refactor CI CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams Integrate platform with data governance tooling catalogs lineage access controls Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business infrastructure or functional areas Participate in evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost performance and scalability Work within a matrix organizational structure reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager Participate in planning execution and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional product and company goals What should you have Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or any Technology stream 4 years of hands-on experience working with IaC Terraform SQL and databases Analytics platforms DevOps tools and REST API Very positive Cloud knowledge ideally AWS certified with good understanding of AWS core service like EC2 EKS S3 RDS VPC networking Security Groups subnets IAM roles policies Route 53 Transit Gateways Load Balancing Lambda KMS Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices like GitHub GitHub Actions for code versioning and deployment Familiarity with modern product development principles - Agile test driven development UX design thinking Familiarity with development practices such as infrastructure observability continuous integration continuous deployment - CI CD containerization Proficiency with other programming languages Scala R Java is a nice to have Any experience with networking principles is also welcomed Experience with Trino Databricks Redshift Grafana is a huge benefit HYDIT2025 Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck 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 Employee Status RegularRelocation VISA Sponsorship Travel Requirements Flexible Work Arrangements HybridShift Valid Driving License Hazardous Material s Required Skills Data Engineering Data Visualization Design Applications Software Configurations Software Development Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Solution Architecture System Designs Systems Integration Testing Preferred Skills Job Posting End Date 10 30 2025A 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 Requisition ID R366253