Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering, Identity

Job Description

Job Description

Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering, Identity & Access Management Assurance

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

- Collaborate very closely with the consumers of IAM services and support teams on compliant use, support issues and onboarding related to utilizing IAM products.
- Partner with other IAM teams (Engineering, Operations, Access & Administration) related to service issues, escalations and support for IAM services.
- Advise on secure IAM practices for both technical and business audiences.
- Support various IAM products and the consideration by customer to utilize them for compliance to policies, automation to manual processes or other security measures especially as it relates to Identity Governance and Privileged Account Management.
- Engagement in onboarding activities related to IAM products. Review and ensure onboarding procedures are in line with engineering teams capability releases.
- Consider automated process improvements for IAM Assurance/Onboarding teams.
- Support onboarding to PAM and IGA services as well as the other IAM related technologies.
- Support IAM / ITRMS on-going projects or initiatives
- 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.
- 5 years of experience working in a medium-large enterprise Identity and Access Management organization
- Advanced knowledge of modern authentications technologies and concepts such as SAML, Federation, SSO, OpenID, OAuth, Privilege Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
- 3+ years of experience with Delinea Secret Server or similar enterprise privilege account management (PAM) solution
- 3+ years of experience with SailPoint Identity IQ or similar enterprise Identity Management (IdM) solution
- 3+ years of experience engaging with IT and business customers facilitating the socialization of IAM policy standards, processes, and procedures.
- Understanding of OWASP Top security risks and mitigation strategies, relevant NIST standards, and Zero Trust principles.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an organization.
- Good organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and adjust to changing deadlines.
- Ability to workefficiently in a matrixed environment with a global team comprised of company staff, contractors, and vendors
- Proven record of delivering high-quality results.
- Product and customer-centric approach.
- Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

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 usand 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

Application Security, Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Security, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, SLA Management, System Designs, Teamwork, Technical Advice, Web Hosting Management, Zero Trust Architecture, Zero Trust Identity

Preferred Skills

Job Posting End Date

10/17/2025

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Requisition ID R366274