Associate Specialist – Platform Engineer (DevXOps)

About the role

Join Merck's global technology center in Hyderabad as an Associate Specialist in Platform Engineering (DevXOps). You will support and continuously improve key engineering platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, GitHub Actions Runners, and Ansible Automation Platform, gaining hands‑on experience with cloud, CI/CD, and Kubernetes.

Key responsibilities

• Support daily operations, maintenance, and monitoring of DevXOps platforms.
• Act as the primary point of contact for designated platform components and participate in on‑call rotations.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, and contribute to automation initiatives.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and enable developer self‑service capabilities.
• Monitor platform health using observability tools and create runbooks, documentation, and knowledge articles.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field.
• 1+ years of experience or relevant internship in DevOps, cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Basic understanding of Linux system administration and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Git, version control, CI/CD concepts, containers and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Bash and willingness to participate in on‑call support.

Required skills

• Bash
• Git
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Red Hat Ansible
• JFrog Artifactory
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud Computing (AWS)
• Terraform
• Grafana
• Prometheus