MSD Senior Specialist Technology Partnership 

Czechia 

872716263

Job Description

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.

Role Overview

As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect the organization's computer systems, networks, and data from cyber threats. This role will involve a combination of technologies, processes, and practices designed to safeguard data, applications, and networks from threats like malware, phishing, and data breaches. You will be tasked with identifying vulnerabilities, supporting the response to incidents, and ensuring that security protocols and controls are adhered to. Your role is vital in safeguarding critical assets and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards.

What will you do in this role:

• Collaborate with product teams to enforce application security best practices, conduct reviews, perform scans and assist in threat modeling to identify and mitigate security risks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute with penetration testing efforts to evaluate the security posture of applications and containers, providing detailed reports on findings and working with development teams to remediate identified issues.
• Collaborate to the oversight of security-related bugs and vulnerabilities using tracking systems. Help prioritize security issues based on risk and impact and ensuring that reported issues are triaged and addressed in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of training materials for the workforce to raise awareness and increase adoption of application security best practices, cloud security best practices, including secure usage of cloud applications and availability of compensating controls.
• Help maintain and monitor security tools and dashboards, ensuring that applications deployed in our environments adhere to organizational security standards and compliance requirements.
• Follow standard approaches and established design patterns to create new designs for systems or system components. Identify and resolve minor design issues.
• Monitor and log the actual service provided, compared to that required by service level agreements.
• Assist in maintaining security infrastructure and performing system updates.
• Investigate minor security breaches in accordance with established procedures. Assist users in defining their access rights and privileges and perform non-standard operational security tasks. Resolve security events and operational security issues.
• Work closely with cross-functional Infrastructure teams on Automation and Orchestration.
• Create and document detailed designs for simple software applications or components. Apply agreed modelling techniques, standards, patterns, and tools.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the project manager.

What should you have:

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 3-4 years experience and need proficiency in security tools in the areas of cloud, application, endpoint, network or identity, vulnerability scanners, and malware analysis platforms.
• Understanding of OWASP Top 10 security risks and mitigation strategies, relevant NIST standards, and Zero Trust principles.
• Good to have experience in any of the cloud environments.
• Familiarity with software development/delivery lifecycle and related technologies
• Familiarity with programming/scripting languages like Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, JSON, PowerShell, or JavaScript for automating tasks.
• Knowledge of authentication methods, identity management, and security access protocols (e.g., SSO, MFA, LDAP).
• Ideally AWS certified.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, CompTIA Security+) are often required or highly desirable.
• Proven record of delivering high-quality results.
• Product and customer-centric approach.
• Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

What we look for:

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