Merck

Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

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1 day ago
Rahway, NJ, USASenior
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Base Salary

$117k - $184k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.
  • Develop reusable patterns, standards, and onboarding guidance for HashiCorp Vault and secrets management.
  • Integrate HashiCorp Vault with CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, automation workflows, and application delivery processes.
  • Enable secure injection, retrieval, rotation, and lifecycle management of secrets for build, release, and runtime environments.
  • Integrate privileged access management with enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and APIs.
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support production operations.
  • Develop automation, standards, and operational processes that improve security, efficiency, and audit readiness.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.
  • Experience integrating Vault with CI/CD tools, automation frameworks, APIs, and application deployment workflows.
  • Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management, including dynamic secrets, secrets engines, and authentication methods for service accounts, workloads, applications, and non-human identities.
  • Practical knowledge of privileged account management, vaulting, password rotation, secrets management, least-privilege access, and service-account security.
  • Experience integrating security platforms with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, cloud services, applications, and APIs.
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python.
  • Hands-on experience with Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and cloud identity management.
  • Familiarity with ServiceNow, NIST, ITIL, Zero Trust principles, cloud security, and modern identity security practices.
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP or Security+ are preferred.
  • Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries is preferred.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Regular employee status.
  • Medical, dental, vision, healthcare, and other insurance benefits for employees and families.
  • Retirement benefits including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
  • Eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
  • Job posting end date is October 12, 2026.

Tech Stack

AnsibleGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsLinuxPowerShellPythonTerraformWindows

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Merck

About Merck

10,000+ employees

Merck & Co. is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that discovers, manufactures, and sells prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products to healthcare systems, physicians, and governments worldwide. Known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, it develops products across oncology, vaccines, infectious diseases, and cardiometabolic conditions, including the cancer therapy Keytruda. Founded in 1891 and headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, it operates global R&D and manufacturing networks and is listed on the NYSE (MRK).

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