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Senior Manager-Infrastructure 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

An Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and supporting the infrastructure that enables an organization's IT systems and services to run smoothly. This includes working with hardware, networking, virtualization, cloud environments, and security systems to ensure the organization's IT infrastructure is efficient, reliable, and scalable. Infrastructure engineers often work closely with software engineers, IT support teams, and system administrators to optimize performance, mitigate risks, and deliver high-quality services to end-users.

What will you do in this role:

• Focus on designing, developing and managing the Data Archival products that enable us to archive, retrieve and manage the data
• Collaborating with business and IT teams to develop Data Archive solutions for Application retirement, Decommissioning and Live Data Archival.
• Develop, document and implement changes based on requests for change. Apply change control procedures, tools, techniques and processes to manage and report on change requests.
• Monitor operational systems for resource usage and failure rates, to inform and facilitate system software tuning. Apply system software parameters to maximise throughput and efficiency.
• Carry out routine operational procedures, amend and execute specified and existing automation tools/scripts and tasks under supervision to gain a basic understanding of the scripting language/automation tools.
• Analyse service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability.
• Design and deploy Data Archival solutions leveraging AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure
• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor simple programs/scripts. Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Apply tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assist with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertake any necessary corrective action under direction.
• Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people. Select system and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services.
• Create and document detailed designs for simple software applications or components. Identify alternative design options and seek guidance when deviating from established design patterns.
• 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:

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with network principles, system administration for Linux/Unix and Windows servers.
• 5-7 years of experience designing & developing scalable and high-performance archival solutions
• 7+ Experience with integrating archival products with databases, file systems and cloud storage
• Experience with Archival product vendors (OpenText Info Archival, SOLIX, Informatica, etc)
• Experience on Databases like Oracle, SQL, CITUS, Hive, etc & Querying Knowledge
• Familiarity with AWS/Azure Cloud as well as the infrastructure automation & management tools (ex: Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, etc).
• Building data pipelines for efficient data ingestion and retrieval from source systems to archive.
• Experience Implementing data cleansing and validation process to ensure data quality in archive
• Experience working on virtualization platforms (Vmware, Hyper-V) is a plus
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Experience with designing and deploying AWS Services like Elastic Compute (EC2), Storages (S3, EBS), EMR, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation and RDS
• Knowledge of IT security practices (firewalls, encryption, vulnerability management).
• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Product and customer-centric approach.
• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

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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