Desired Skills and Experience

  • Use scripting and systems administration experience to improve management of infrastructure (Servers, Storage and Databases).
  • Bridge DevOps and infrastructure teams to bring reliability and savings to deployed systems.
  • Provide a future vision for infrastructure that balances required legacy app support with modern design for resiliency, cost efficiency and goodness of fit.
  • Architect solutions that can deliver large scale highly resilient services, minimizing human operational demand.
  • Address both Merck’s significant internal infrastructure and increasing cloud presence.
  • Troubleshoot specific infrastructure and application issues with the intent of future automatic programmatic resolution.
  • Be resilient to traditional methods and assumptions by maintaining a can-do attitude.
  • Focus on compliance. In the pharmaceutical industry, compliance is important. Your design, documentation and implementation must satisfy compliance requirements.
  • Create and contribute written and other visual content that explains efficient methodology implementations to team members and managers via workgroup sessions and presentations.
  • Execute proof of concepts for infrastructure production use cases and create training materials.
  • Bachelors Degree preferably in Computer Science, information systems, or another field with relevant experience.
  • A minimum of five (5) years of professional work experience.
  • Domain knowledge of servers, storage, or databases needed to support infrastructure.
  • Experience scripting with Windows or Linux environments using at least one script language.
  • Experience with IaaS, VMware vSphere, and monitoring tools for infrastructure.
  • Experience using at least one database technology, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL
  • Adept at managing global & diverse perspectives in an unbiased way across multiple stakeholder and communities.
  • You’ve used Jira and Confluence or similar collaboration tools.
  • Architecture experience for cloud resources (AWS or similar), and asset tracking (CMDB).
  • Administration experience of a scale out storage system, other distributed systems or services.
  • Administration experience with databases, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres or Cassandra.
  • Familiar with leading backup software and data replication technologies.
  • Familiarity with SRE, experience operating within an SRE program a plus.
  • Experience with IT (or other) supply chain.
  • Experience giving presentations, communicating within a team, in person, over a screen sharing software which may include being on camera. 
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