Manager Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description

Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering, PAM

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 organization 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 energetic, forward-thinking professional to join our IT Risk Management & Security group in Prague. This technical role serves as an Engineer in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) space with a focus on Privileged Access Management (PAM) and API security.

What will you do in this role:

• Understand divisional and site business system requirements for Privileged Access Management.
• Must have experience in defining Privileged Access Management platform requirements, designing technical solutions and executing on those designs into a highly available, fault tolerant environment.
• Understanding of security best practices, administration and governance of Identity and Access Management the products and services including identify and evaluate security gaps.
• Perform vendor and technology assessments.
• Recommend improvements, corrections, remediation for projects or internal processes.
• Advocate secure computing practices and procedures and communicate Information Security and IAM best practices throughout the company.
• Maintain active and direct interaction with key stakeholders.
• Working with various technical teams to ensure we maintain high availability and uninterrupted outage of our production environment.
• Demonstrate ability to stay current with all industry trends/best practices, as well as new product releases so that we can maintain a proactive 3-year systems management roadmap.
• Ensure all third-party monitoring solutions that are integrated into the Identity & Access Management products are properly documented and function as designed.

What should you have:

• 3+ years of experience with IAM solutions in the area of Privileged Access Management
• In-depth knowledge of Privileged Access Management solutions (e.g. Delinea Secret Server, CyberArk, BeyondTrust) and typical corporate use-cases and security requirements in this area. 
• Previous work designing / implementing Privileged Access Management services and processes.
• Strong organizational skills and able to multitask and adjust to changing priorities 
• Ability to work efficiently in a matrixed environment with a global team comprised of company staff, contractors, and vendors 
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills to effectively communicate technical ideas in business- and user-friendly language 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and demonstrable ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Well versed in PAM, PAM in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) and standard platforms (Windows, UNIX, Databases), Kubernetes, PowerShell and automation, CI/CD Pipelines
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills are required.
• A demonstrated track record of making a difference and adding value.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Ability to work and adjust to changing deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an organization.  Able to present technical ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities

Desired Skills & Experience

• Previous work designing / implementing PAM Solutions (e.g. Delinea Secret Server, CyberArk, BeyondTrust)
• Hands-on experience with managing a PAM solution, understanding of PAM authentication patterns and typical challenges
• PAM Enhancements that support company’s strategy roadmap 
• Experience working in a large healthcare environment
• Demonstrated understanding of Identity-related NIST standards (e.g. 800-63-3)
• Prior experience with the Our company enterprise environment and business applications
• Good working knowledge of the ITIL framework 
• Working knowledge and understanding of Remedy for Change, Incident and Knowledge Management
• CISSP, Security+ or similar industry certification

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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Required Skills:

Cybersecurity, Design Applications, Information Security, Management Process, Security Operations, SLA Management, Social Collaboration, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs, Technical Advice, Vulnerability Scanning

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

11/30/2025

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