Senior Manager, ITRMS Cyber Defense and Analytics at Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. /Netherlands

Hyderabad, Telangana, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

23 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Data Analytics, Incident Response, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Security, KQL, Automation, Security Tools, Vulnerability Assessment, Technical Leadership, Mentorship, Integration, Compliance, Architecture, Engineering

Industry

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Description

Job Description 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 As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect the organization's computer systems, networks, and data from cyber threats. This role will involve a combination of technologies, processes, and practices designed to safeguard data, applications, and networks from threats like malware, phishing, and data breaches. You will be tasked with identifying vulnerabilities, supporting the response to incidents, and ensuring that security protocols and controls are adhered to. Your role is vital in safeguarding critical assets and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards. What will you do in this role: Contribute to the development of enhanced cloud and application security control integrations and architectural best practices. Contribute to the development and implementation of product security policies and standards to ensure that application, cloud services and infrastructure meet organizational security requirements. Help maintain and monitor security tools and dashboards, ensuring that applications deployed in our environments adhere to organizational security standards and compliance requirements. Identify and prioritize adoption of our security tools within other teams ensuring the inputs and outputs are fully integrated enabling a complete security function. Follow standard approaches and established design patterns to create new designs for systems or system components. Identify and resolve minor design issues. Assist in implementing and maintaining specific security controls as required by organisational policy and local risk assessments and contribute to identifying risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures. Monitor and log the actual service provided, compared to that required by service level agreements. Undertake low-complexity routine vulnerability assessments using automated and semi-automated tools and contribute to evaluating and documenting the scope of results. Design, implement, test, document, and support integration of security tools and technologies in pipelines, Also, assist the product teams in related activities. Assist in maintaining security infrastructure and performing system updates. Investigate minor security breaches in accordance with established procedures. Assist users in defining their access rights and privileges and perform non-standard operational security tasks. Resolve security events and operational security issues. Work closely with cross-functional Infrastructure teams on Automation and Orchestration. Create and document detailed designs for simple software applications or components. Apply agreed modelling techniques, standards, patterns, and tools. Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager. What should you have: Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream. 6–10+ years of IT/security engineering experience, with 3–5+ years focused on Microsoft Sentinel & Azure security stack. Proven expertise in ADX schema design, query optimization, and capacity planning. Hands-on experience with Cribl (Stream, Edge) for enterprise-scale log routing and transformation. Strong proficiency in KQL, Azure Logic Apps, and data ingestion pipelines. Deep understanding of SIEM architectures, SOAR automation, and cloud-native security controls. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Engineering Leadership Design and optimize enterprise-scale Sentinel SIEM/analytics solutions. Architect and manage ADX clusters for scalable, cost-optimized query and hunting workloads. Build and tune Cribl pipelines (Edge & Stream) for telemetry routing, enrichment, and normalization. Integrate across the Azure stack (Logic Apps, Event Hub, Functions, Key Vault, etc.) for automation and resilience. Delivery & Execution Design and Engineer ingestion pipelines from multiple log sources into Sentinel/ADX. Develop and optimize KQL queries, detection rules, dashboards, and workbooks. Ensure telemetry pipelines are reliable, scalable, and compliant with enterprise logging standards. Drive performance benchmarking and cost governance for large-scale data ingestion. Collaboration & Mentorship Act as a technical SME and advisor for cross-functional security and infrastructure teams. Mentor and support Specialist-level engineers to uplift team skills in Sentinel, ADX, and Cribl. Partner with incident response, threat hunting, and cloud engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions. Preferred Skills Experience with ServiceNow SIR or equivalent case management integrations. Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping for detection engineering. Scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation. Strong communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. 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. #HYDIT2025 Required Skills: Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Security, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Security Analytics, SLA Management, System Designs, Team Leadership, Technical Advice Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Regular Relocation: VISA Sponsorship: Travel Requirements: Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Valid Driving License: Hazardous Material(s): Job Posting End Date: 11/30/2025 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date. Requisition ID:R366272

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Responsibilities

The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect the organization's systems and data from cyber threats. Responsibilities include developing security policies, monitoring security tools, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance security measures.