Cloud Solution Architect (Full-/Part-time) (al genders)

at  Merck Group

Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That’s why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Expertise in AWS services and architecture, including IAM, VPC, Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, S3, ECR, AuroraDB, CloudWatch, and AWS CLI.
• Proficiency in Java, TypeScript, and Python.
• Understanding of networking basics and cloud security.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly CloudFormation.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools like AWS CloudWatch or Prometheus/Grafana.
• Strong experience with DevOps practices and tools for CI/CD, such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and JFrog Artifactory.
• Experience with authentication/authorization methods (AD, Azure AD, SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect).
• Familiarity with Agile workflows, particularly Scrum and ideally SAFe.

YOUR ROLE

The Cloud Solutions Architect will play a pivotal role in designing and building enterprise-scale cloud architectures to power, deploy, and operationalize our applications, microservices, serverless functions, and more. This position is part of the enabling team that supports our product teams, which work on Software as a Service (SaaS) applications used by our customers. Embedded within development teams, the role provides hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Security, Networking, Observability, and Distributed Tracing.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement scalable cloud solutions on AWS to support product development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of cloud solutions.
• Utilize DevOps practices to automate and enhance development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Examine the software development lifecycle from source to production to build tools and workflows for rapid software delivery.
• Automate processes and apply SRE principles within development teams.
• Build and scale containerized applications using cloud-native architectures.
• Drive prototyping efforts to evaluate infrastructure and architecture design options.
• Design robust CI/CD processes, including infrastructure as code.
• Integrate with enterprise systems for Security, Distributed Tracing, and Telemetry.
• Enhance existing toolchains through development and third-party software investigation.
• Produce clean, well-documented code following development best practices.
• Stay updated on new technologies and produce thought leadership content.