Manager, Attack Automation Engineer

About the role

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. Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. Role Overview As an Attack Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on automation, you will maintain and optimize the offensive security environments that enable red team operations. You'll write Python and Bash scripts to automate routine tasks, manage virtualization platforms (Proxmox/ESXi), provision AWS command and control (C2) instances, and ensure our infrastructure remains stable, secure and cost-effective. What should you have: Programming & Scripting Python proficiency for automation and tool development Bash scripting fundamentals for system administration PowerShell knowledge is a plus (for Windows environments) Cloud & Virtualization AWS EC2 instance management and cost optimization awareness Experience with Proxmox virtualization (primary); ESXi/Nutanix exposure helpful Linux system administration (Debian-based systems preferred) Docker container fundamentals for C2 environment support Infrastructure Automation Terraform or Ansible experience for infrastructure provisioning Comfortable writing automation scripts (e.g., AWS Lambda for idle instance cleanup) Understanding of cloud cost management and resource lifecycle Networking Fundamentals DNS, firewalls, load balancers, and virtual IP configuration VLANs and VPN tunnel basics Troubleshooting network connectivity issues Mindset & Approach Comfortable working unsupervised Willingness to learn offensive toolset and methodologies as part of the role We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world. What we look for Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in c