Sr. Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering
MSD
Summary
The Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering is a hands-on security engineer responsible for securing our Company's strategic enterprise platforms through implementation, automation, assurance, and continuous risk reduction. This role partners with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls, improve resilience, standardize governance, and maintain trusted platform operations across critical business platforms.
Job description
Role Summary
The Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering is a hands-on security engineer responsible for securing our Company's strategic enterprise platforms through implementation, automation, assurance, and continuous risk reduction. This role partners with platform owners, engineers, architects, and product teams to embed security controls, improve resilience, standardize governance, and maintain trusted platform operations across critical business platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineer, implement, and maintain security controls across strategic platforms including SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Veeva, AI platforms, and enterprise SaaS/PaaS services.
- Support platform assurance through security assessments, control validation, risk reduction, and compliance readiness activities.
- Integrate security capabilities into platform delivery, CI/CD workflows, and operational processes.
- Develop automation, controls-as-code, and reusable security patterns to improve platform security and operational efficiency.
- Monitor platform security posture, investigate gaps, and drive remediation of findings.
- Partner with platform teams to improve resilience, onboarding experience, and secure adoption.
- Contribute to security standards, operational procedures, and engineering best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, platform security, or DevSecOps.
- Fluent in modern AI technologies and practical enterprise use cases.
- Able to apply AI to improve cybersecurity engineering, automation, investigations, and operational efficiency.
- Understands emerging AI security risks and supports secure adoption of AI capabilities across strategic platforms.
- Hands-on experience implementing security controls in PaaS, SaaS, or enterprise platforms.
- Experience with identity security, security automation, logging, monitoring, and vulnerability remediation.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud-native technologies.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Veeva, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Experience with AI security, software supply chain security, and platform governance.
- CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, GIAC, AWS, or Azure security certifications.
- Experience in regulated enterprise environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, platform security, or DevSecOps
- Fluent in modern AI technologies and practical enterprise use cases
- Able to apply AI to improve cybersecurity engineering, automation, investigations, and operational efficiency
- Understands emerging AI security risks and supports secure adoption of AI capabilities
- Hands-on experience implementing security controls in PaaS, SaaS, or enterprise platforms
- Experience with identity security, security automation, logging, monitoring, and vulnerability remediation
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud-native technologies
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaboration skills
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Matching
- Retirement Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- Vacation
- Compassionate Leave
- Sick Days
- Annual Bonus
- Long-Term Incentive
Company overview
MSD, known as Merck Sharp & Dohme outside the United States and Canada, is a global research-intensive biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. Founded in 1891, the company has established itself as one of the world's leading pharmaceutical corporations with a rich history spanning over 130 years. MSD operates as the international division of Merck & Co., Inc., focusing on the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and animal health products. The company's extensive portfolio includes groundbreaking treatments in oncology, infectious diseases, cardiology, diabetes, and vaccines, with notable products such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for cancer immunotherapy, Gardasil for HPV prevention, and Januvia for diabetes management. MSD maintains a strong commitment to research and development, investing significantly in scientific innovation to address unmet medical needs worldwide. With approximately 75,000 employees globally, the company operates through four main segments: pharmaceuticals, animal health, healthcare services, and strategic alliances. MSD's mission centers on using leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world, guided by the principle that medicine is for people, not profits.