Senior Manager

Job Description

Senior Manager, Release Manager

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 Release and AWS Infrastructure Manager with expertise in managing product code releases and infrastructure management in cloud environments. The successful candidate will oversee end-to-end releases for multiple products hosted on AWS cloud infrastructure, integrating DevSecOps practices. This role requires collaboration skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to drive process improvements in a fast-paced technical environment. You will be responsible for ensuring timely, secure, and efficient deployments to lower and production environments while maintaining a secure, scalable, high-performing cloud infrastructure by following the change management process.

What will you do in this role

Release Management:

• Oversee and manage the release lifecycle, ensuring smooth deployments to production by working with multiple product development teams, testing teams, and production support teams.

• Collaborate with software engineering, QA, and operations teams to define and implement release strategies, ensuring compliance and quality standards are met.

• Utilize GitHub to manage code repositories, version control, and coordinate seamless code integration into the release process.

• Manage deployment pipelines with a focus on automation, leveraging GitHub Actions or other CI/CD tools.

• Provide visibility into release progress and performance metrics to stakeholders, reporting on release readiness and identifying potential risks.

AWS Infrastructure Management:

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and cost-effective AWS cloud infrastructure to support application releases and business operations.

• Utilize AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch to architect cloud solutions that align with business requirements.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to automate provisioning and configuration management of AWS resources.

• Ensure high availability, performance optimization, and disaster recovery strategies for mission-critical systems.

• Leverage cloud-native monitoring tools to ensure the health, security, and performance of the infrastructure.

DevSecOps Integration and CI/CD Pipeline Automation:

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools to automate build, test, and deployment processes.

• Manage and optimize GitHub repositories, ensuring code repository best practices and maintaining workflows within GitHub.

• Facilitate and optimize the integration of GitHub with AWS and other DevOps tools to automate deployments and version tracking.

Process Improvement & Optimization:

• Continuously evaluate and improve release management, cloud infrastructure processes, and DevSecOps practices to drive efficiency, security, and scalability.

• Implement best practices for infrastructure and release management to streamline operations, reduce downtime, and improve overall system reliability.

• Automate manual processes through scripting to enhance operational efficiency and reduce human errors.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product teams, Engineering, QA, CTO Teams) in managing and maintaining the release infrastructure along with the deployment process to ensure efficient and secure releases.

• Act as a liaison between development, operations, and other business units to ensure smooth, secure, and compliant software releases.

• Provide regular updates and transparent reporting to senior management regarding release schedules, infrastructure performance, and security initiatives.

What should you have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or any Technology Stream from a renowned University or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure management, release management, and DevOps roles, with at least 5 years focused on AWS cloud environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, VPC, IAM, VPC security, encryption) and related cloud management tools.

• Demonstrated expertise in integrating DevSecOps practices into CI/CD pipelines, including automation tools and techniques (Preferred: GitHub/GitHub Actions).

• Experience with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation

• Strong understanding of networking concepts and connections in cloud environments; infrastructure architect experience is highly desirable.

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Shell.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

• Excellent leadership and team management abilities, with a proven track record of driving cross-functional collaboration and strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent communication skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities effectively.

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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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Availability Management, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Configuration Management (CM), Design Applications, Incident Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Service Management (ITSM), Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Administration, System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

07/30/2025

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