Manager, Security Automation Engineer, Core Cyber

Job Description

Manager, Security Automation Engineer, Core Cyber

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 companys’ 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

A Security Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing scalable automation workflows that enhance cybersecurity capabilities and reduce manual operational burden. This role focuses on integrating with security tools and platforms (e.g., Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, ServiceNow, Wiz, SailPoint), orchestrating response actions, and improving efficiency through automation. The engineer collaborates closely with platform owners, threat intelligence, incident response, and engineering teams to deliver enterprise-grade automation aligned with security strategy and governance standards.

What will you do in this role

• Design and build automation workflows to orchestrate actions across tools like Defender XDR, Sentinel, ServiceNow, SailPoint, Wiz, and CrowdStrike.
• Develop scalable integrations and scripts (e.g., via Python or PowerShell) to reduce manual security operations effort.
• Operationalize first-response automation such as alert enrichment, user notification, system isolation, and entitlement revocation.
• Leverage ServiceNow Flow Designer or APIs to automate common identity and access management tasks.
• Collaborate with security engineering and platform teams to identify automation candidates and implement controls safely.
• Implement observability into automation (logging, alerting, telemetry) to ensure resilience and traceability.
• Follow secure coding and CI/CD practices; participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment pipelines.
• Create kill switches, safety nets, and approval layers to ensure automation behaves safely in production environments.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge-sharing to enable reuse and support scale-out.
• Establish, modify and maintain data structures and associated components.
• Create and deliver standard reports in accordance with stakeholder needs and conforming to agreed standards.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.
• Participate in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and project goals.

What should you have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience developing security or infrastructure automation solutions using APIs, scripting, and orchestration platforms.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, ServiceNow, Wiz, SailPoint, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and/or PowerShell, including experience with RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with enterprise cybersecurity practices and telemetry (SIEM, EDR, IAM, vulnerability management).
• Experience integrating across cloud and on-prem environments; comfort with Azure preferred.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional engineering settings.
• Passion for improving operational efficiency, reducing toil, and solving complex security challenges through automation.
• Product and customer-centric approach with an experimental, iterative 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 us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Information Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

05/21/2025

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