DevOps Squad Lead at Merck

Job Description:

Our Engineering team builds core components used by our Research Labs’ data analytics, visualization, and management workflows. The analysis tools and pipelines built for data processing by our team in partnership with our scientists aim to accelerate research and the discovery of new therapies for our patients.

We collect, annotate, analyze petabytes of scientific data (multi-omics, chemistry, imaging, safety) used in biomarker research, drug safety/efficacy, drug target discovery, and compendium diagnostic development. We help our scientists to process, analyze scientific data at scale by developing highly parallelized analytical workflows ran on HPC infrastructure (on-prem & cloud); to manage, explore and visualize various scientific data modalities by developing bespoke data models, bioinformatics ETL processes, data retrieval and visualization services using distributed micro-service architecture, FAIR data principles, SPA type dashboards, industry specific regulatory compliant data integrity, auditing, and security access controls.

We are a creative and disciplined software engineering team, using agile practices and established technology stacks to design and develop large-scale data analytics, visualization, and management software solutions for local and on-cloud hosted HPC datacenters, as well as to integrate 3rd party analytical platforms with internal data workflows to address pressing engineering and data science challenges of life-science.

We are looking for Team lead – Devops Engineer (SE) who can break down and solve complex problems with a strong motivation to get things done with a boots-on-the-ground, pragmatic mindset! Our engineers own their products end to end and influence the way how our products and technology are deployed to facilitate most aspects of drug discovery impacting hundreds of thousands of patients around the world. We are looking for engineers who can creatively handle complex dependencies and ambiguous requirements, competing business priorities, while producing fit-for-purpose, optimal solutions.

We are hoping that you are passionate about collaborating across the interface between hard-core software development and research and discovery data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement engineering tools, applications and solutions that facilitate research processes and scientific discovery in several areas of our drug discovery process

• Engineering support of day-to-day activities/needs in our infrastructure

• Help drive the design and architecture of adopted engineering solutions with a detail-oriented mindset

• Promote and help with the adoption of development, design, architecture, and DevOps best practices, with a particular focus on agile deliver mindset

• Manage technical and business dependencies and bottlenecks; balance technical constraints with business requirements; and deliver maximum business impact with solid customer experience

• Strong collaboration, organization skills in cross-functional teams; ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences; work closely with scientists, peers, and business leaders in different geographical locations to define and deliver complex engineering features

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science/engineering or equivalent technical field

• Team/tech lead experience, mentoring junior members, build delivery plans

• Strong collaborator, communicator

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Experienced with making technical partnerships with research and business teams

Proven ability (5+ years hands-on experience)

• to integrate AWS services (EC2/RDS/S3/Batch/KMS/ECS etc..) into production workflows

• to build CICD pipelines, CI/CD workflows with Github or equivalent

• with using IaC frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)

• with developing and deploying containerized applications (i.e., Docker, Singularity)

• with advanced usage of programming (scripting) languages: Python, Bash

• with Linux OS command line

2+ years hands-on experience

• to drive API (REST, GraphQL, etc.) driven, modular development of production workflows and integration with 3rd party vendor platforms

• to create relational data models, ETL processing pipelines using PostgreSQL (preferred), Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Nice to Haves

Prior experience with

• with building resource intensive HPC analysis modules and/or data processing tasks

• with containerization platform: Kubernetes/Helm

• with end-to-end testing framework: Robot/Selenium

• with non-relational database vendors (Elastic Search, etc..)

• with building, troubleshooting C, C++ libraries and dependencies on Linux (maven, make, etc..)

• with frontend development (any JS framework)

What We Offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave,5 sick days,15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually,40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities,12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport card, Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and i Phone, parking in the garage, showers, refreshments

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Required Skills:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Batch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), CI/CD, Docker (Software), GitHub, GraphQL (Query Language), Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Linux, Linux Bash, Python (Programming Language), Red Hat Ansible, RESTful APIs, Structured Query Language (SQL), Terraform

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

Yes

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

05/10/2026

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