Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description

Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering.

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

We are looking for a self-motivated result focused Cybersecurity Engineer to become a part of our expanding team. This position will be a hybrid position located in Hyderabad, India. This role will focus on engineering, deployment, and support of endpoint security solutions. The successful candidate will work closely with global stakeholders to safeguard our company's assets worldwide. The ideal applicant should possess at least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, with a background in an engineering role within a global environment.

What will you do in this role

• Implement endpoint security solutions across Cloud, Enterprise, and Manufacturing IT / OT environments.
• Operate and maintain endpoint security controls, including installation, configuration, tuning, and ongoing maintenance.
• Research and assess new endpoint security technologies.
• Conduct user acceptance testing.
• Provide level 3 engineering support

What should you have

• Basic understanding of the NIST & MiTRE Cybersecurity framework including Zero Trust.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with developing endpoint security controls and security policies
• Experience with Windows Desktop/Server, MacOS and Linux operating systems.
• Solid collaboration skills, able to collaborate with colleagues in both domestic and international locations.
• Previous experience developing SDLC documentation and change control processes.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working with Trellix/Mcafee suite including TIE server and Solid Core.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working with Microsoft Defender (deployment and support)
• Minimum 3 years' experience working with CrowdStrike.
• Experience: 3- 7 yrs.
• 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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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Design Applications, Information Security, Security Operations, SLA Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs, Technical Advice, Vulnerability Scanning

 Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

09/18/2025

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Requisition ID:R342310

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