
Senior Manager, Network Automation Senior Developer
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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, automation and SW solutions to drive decision-making and allowing us to support a large communications network.
- 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 REST APIs
- With a wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience, regularly mentor peers, provide help, aid in defining standards, and identify reusable code or application modules.
- Create and document detailed designs for custom software applications or components.
- 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.
- 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.
- Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
- Drive improvements in the processes around selected network 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.
- Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience working with technologies – Ansible, Terraform, AWS, REST API, SQL and databases, at least one programming language from our supported stack (TypeScript / Node / React, Java, Python, .NET).
- Experience with designing and implementing REST APIs.
- At least basic understanding of IP-based communication networks (routing, switching, firewalling, load-balancing, DNS).
- Working with DevSecOps tools for deploying and versioning code.
- Familiarity with modern product development practices – Agile, Scrum, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices (Git, Docker, infrastructure as code, observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD).
- Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
- Product and customer-centric approach.
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.Employee Status: RegularRelocation:VISA Sponsorship:Travel Requirements:Flexible Work Arrangements: HybridShift:Valid Driving License:Hazardous Material(s):Required Skills: Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, TestingPreferred Skills:Job Posting End Date: 10/31/2025*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.