Job Description

Manager, Reliability SRE Engineer

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 a highly skilled AWS Cloud Release Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for managing, deploying, automating, and optimizing the release process for applications and services hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role requires expertise in cloud infrastructure, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, version control, and release management to ensure efficient, timely, and secure deployment of software solutions. The AWS Release Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable and maintain seamless cloud-based deployments in a highly regulated environment.

What will you do in this role

Oversee the release management lifecycle for applications deployed on AWS, ensuring smooth, timely, and compliant deployments with minimal downtime and disruption to business operations.

Develop, implement, and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and Terraform to automate deployments to AWS environments.

Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, EKS, and others. Ensure deployments align with best practices for security, scalability, and performance.

Oversee version control processes (e.g., GitHub) and manage configuration management to automate environment provisioning and software deployment.

Analyze AWS infrastructure performance and troubleshoot deployment issues to ensure high availability and reliability. Provide support for identifying and resolving issues during deployments and post-deployment.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Cloud Engineers, DevOps, QA, and Product teams to ensure all deployments meet business requirements and are properly tested before production releases.

Document release procedures, deployment configurations, and rollback plans in compliance with internal and industry standards.

Continuously improve release processes, enhance automation scripts, and optimize AWS environments to improve performance, reduce costs, and simplify workflows

Ensure that security best practices are followed during releases, including proper configuration of IAM roles, VPCs, encryption, and compliance with company security policies.

What should you have

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

4-6 years of experience in release engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure management, with a focus on AWS cloud environments.

Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, CloudFormation, and IAM.

Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).

Strong experience in version control systems (e.g., GitHub) and automation tools.

Proficiency in cloud technologies, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Solid experience in Linux/Unix system administration and scripting languages (e.g., Shell scripting).

Experience in performing non-production and production code deployments, both application and infrastructure as code (IAC).

Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating build, test, and deployment workflows.

Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM roles, encryption, and compliance standards.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

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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