Spclst , Cybersecurity Engineering

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. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create 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 ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the 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. 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 motivated Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team. This person will be responsible for the engineering/deployment and support of endpoint security solutions. This position will collaborate with global stake holders to ensure the protection of assets globally. Although this is an entry level position, the ideal candidate will have some basic cyber-security experience, such as the successful completion of a Cybersecurity position internship.

What should you have:

• Basic understanding of the NIST & MiTRE CyberSecurity framework.
• Familiarity with endpoint security controls such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike or Trellix.
• Experience with Windows Desktop/Server, Mac and Linux operating systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Solid collaboration skills, able to collaborate with colleagues in both domestic and international locations.
• Experience with endpoint security solutions
• Previous experience in pharmaceutical company or other highly regulated environment.
• Experience working in a multinational corporation.
• Working experience as a cyber security engineer for a large multinational company.

What will you do:

• Implement endpoint security solutions and product offerings in the Cloud, Enterprise and Manufacturing IT/OT environments.
• Collaborate across IT and business areas to assure successful endpoint security controls implementation.
• Operate and maintain endpoint security controls including the installation, configuration, tunning and maintenance.
• Research and evaluate new endpoint security technologies.
• Engage and drive endpoint security product roadmap. 
• Perform user acceptance testing.
• Provide level 3 engineering support.

Preferred:

• Experience with endpoint security solutions
• Previous experience in pharmaceutical company or other highly regulated environment.
• Experience working in a multinational corporation.
• Working experience as a cyber security engineer for a large multinational company.

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 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:

Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS, Application Security, Business-IT Alignment, Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Computer Science, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, Endpoint Security, Enterprise Operations, Information Security, Multinational Corporations, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Security Framework, Security Solutions, SLA Management, System Designs, Teamwork, Technical Advice {+ 4 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

06/24/2026

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