Senior Specialist Infrastructure Engineering

Job Description

Senior Data Center Engineer 

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 Centres 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 Centres 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 Centres.

Role Overview

our company is an innovative, global healthcare leader committed to improving health and well-being around the world. Our product categories include heart and respiratory health, diabetes, infectious diseases, vaccines, consumer products and women's health. We continue to focus our research on conditions that affect millions of people around the world, aspiring to be the best healthcare company in the world.

Our Data Center team operates as a business partner to design and build the architecture, engineer solutions, and operate our global Data Centers and Colocations.

We are seeking a highly critical technical specialist, innovator Senior Data Center Engineer that is passionate about collaborating across the various IT divisions and focused on building a best in class, automated and secure Data center environment.

What will you do

• Perform network design, planning and setup of Data Center network infrastructure based on business and technical requirement gathered across various IT and business divisions
• Automate tasks and process to transform our Data Center to Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Python, Terraform)
• Optimize the network to improve convergence, performance and latency
• Maintain updated schematic diagrams for infrastructure and low-level architecture design diagram
• Collaborate in Proof of concept and testing of network solutions
• Create and maintain documentation related to network configuration, policies, procedures and service records
• Provides support on a world-wide basis.
• We are seeking professionals with the following qualifications, skills and experience

 What should you have

• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in Data Center Technologies (Cisco Nexus and ACI) and Routing & Switching (VLAN, STP, QoS, VPC/MLAG, HSRP/VRRP, NAT, IPSec, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, VxLAN EVPN…)
• Having a DevOps mindset with good understanding of DevOps principles & best practices.
• Knowledge of other Networking Products (Cisco FTD, Palo Alto, F5 LTM and GTM, Infoblox) and their integration in a Data Center environment.
• Coding experience to automate and simplify IT processes and Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Python, Terraform)
• Experience working according ITIL processes, Agile delivery and SDLC.
• Able to supervise and manage simple tasks and projects
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills with internal and external parties
• Experience in multicultural communication and solid presentation skills

Education Level:

• MSc Degree or BSc Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, International Business & Management, Business Informatics.
• CCNP or CCIE certification or equivalent with more than 5 years’ experience in Data Center Networking

 Primary Skills

• Organized, self-motivated, flexible, fast learner.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Passionate about networking and automation, as well as excited to learn new things
• Linux and virtualization experience would be a plus.
• Ability to coach and mentor less experienced colleagues

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 lives, 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:

Animal Vaccination, Animal Vaccination, Availability Management, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Capacity Management, Change Controls, Configuration Management (CM), Data Center Technology, Design Applications, DevOps, DevOps Architecture, Diabetes Mellitus, Incident Management, Infectious Disease, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Operation, IT Service Management (ITSM), Procurement, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Communications, System Administration, System Designs {+ 1 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

07/14/2026

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