Manager, Network Automation Developer

Job Description

Manager, Network Automation Developer

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 organization 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, automation and SW solutions to drive decision-making and allowing us to support a large communications network.

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 Network Automation Developer you will design, develop, and maintain software systems in support of managing communications network and providing network services. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable software. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, software development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver software products that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end-users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and delivery leads, to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs and implement solutions accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Learn and improve company's processes related to network management and seek opportunities to build automated solutions for network management
• Develop automation solutions for self-service of network services
• Develop, maintain & support Ansible playbooks
• Develop, maintain & support automation solutions built in AWS
• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor moderately complex applications and software configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams across various regions worldwide.
• Design test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting test outcomes. Participate in requirement, design and specification reviews. Perform manual and automation testing.
• Elicit requirements for systems and software life cycle working practices and automation. Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people. Utilize systems and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome.
• Become a point of contact for existing and new network tools
• Drive improvements in the processes around selected network tools
• Manage data quality for selected tools
• Design and maintain the configuration of selected tools based on business demand
• Participate in evaluating new tools
• Cooperate closely with network designers and network operations
• Apply good development and documentation practices
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in Product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and Product goals.

What should you have

• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with technologies – Ansible, AWS, REST API, SQL and databases, at least one programming language from our supported stack (TypeScript / Node / React, Java, Python, .NET).
• At least basic understanding of IP-based communication networks (routing, switching, firewalling, load-balancing, DNS).
• Familiarity with modern product development practices – Agile, Scrum, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices (Git, infrastructure as code, observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD).
• Possesses both theoretical and practical knowledge, with the ability to autonomously implement given tasks, including producing and deploying pieces of code.
• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
• Product and customer-centric approach.

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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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

10/21/2025

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Requisition ID:R342337

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