Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Merck is seeking an Associate Director in CD&A Engineering to lead the strategy and operational delivery of security data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on ensuring reliable and scalable engineering solutions that support enterprise-scale analytics and cybersecurity initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Drive the engineering roadmap for security data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and platform services aligned with CD&A and enterprise cybersecurity strategy
- Responsible for the data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across SIEM, XDR, and data lake platforms
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and governance frameworks that scale across teams and environments
- Represent CD&A Engineering in cross-functional forums with Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, Compliance, and enterprise architecture leadership
- Design Cribl-based pipelines for ingesting, parsing, enriching, routing, and transforming high-volume security telemetry
- Drive optimization of data flows for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across security analytics platforms
- Define and enforce data standards for normalization, metadata enrichment, and data quality — ensuring Copilot, AI, and analytics readiness
- Oversee onboarding of new security data sources and continuous improvement of existing pipeline architecture
- Contribute to the infrastructure strategy for security data platforms across Azure and Google Cloud, delivered through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or equivalent)
- Ensure infrastructure deployments are consistent, repeatable, auditable, and aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards
- Partner with cloud platform and enterprise architecture teams to shape infrastructure direction and resolve cross-cutting dependencies
- Accountable for the availability, scalability, and resilience of security data pipelines and supporting infrastructure
- Drive implementation of monitoring, alerting, and operational KPIs for ETL and ingestion services
- Drive incident response and root cause analysis for data pipeline or infrastructure issues, driving systemic improvements
- Proactively identify and remediate performance bottlenecks, operational risks, and technical debt
- Mentor and develop engineers focused on data pipeline and cloud infrastructure delivery
- Contribute to sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and PI execution in alignment with CD&A objectives
- Foster a culture of accountability, automation, documentation, and continuous improvement
- Ensure audit, compliance, and data retention requirements are embedded into pipeline and infrastructure design
- Provide technical leadership into architecture reviews, onboarding assessments, and platform change governance
- Collaborate closely with the Cyber Fusion Center (CFC/SOC), XDR/SIEM engineering, CDAI, and ITRMS stakeholders
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field
- Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in security data engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering — with at least 3 years in a leadership or people management capacity
- Deep expertise with Cribl or equivalent security data pipeline / ETL platforms
- Strong experience architecting and governing infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or similar)
- Proven experience with Google Cloud and/or Azure in large, enterprise-scale environments
- Solid command of security telemetry, logging standards, and data lifecycle management
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional alignment, set technical direction, and deliver at scale
- Application Security
- Cloud Security
- Cybersecurity Operations
- Data Protection
- Delivery of Security Applications
- Design Applications
- DevOps Coaching
- Influence
- Information Security
- SLA Management
- System Designs
- Technical Advice
- Zero Trust Identity
Benefits
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable
- Medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- Paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days
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