IT Automation Engineer

IT Automation Engineer
- Work within the** healthcare sector with advanced IT process**; perfect for **tech-savvy individuals**:

- **Based in Singapore**, the regional hub for **Asia Pacific (AP) and named one of the Best Companies to Work for in 2019 by HR Asia**:

- Join the **premier biopharmaceutical company** that has been in **Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.**

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

**What you will do**

**Main Responsibilities**
- The IT Automation Engineer is responsible for maintaining the IT Automation/Orchestration tools, technologies, roadmaps and platforms used within the company.
- The Engineer assist developers in the use of open protocols and platform APIs, along with automation vendor platforms, for supporting the design and development and integrating of IT solutions with the automation platform(s).
- To work with IT Automation, Data Science, Monitoring team and other Platform engineers, developers and architects to maintain and evolve the Automation Reference Architecture.
- The role works with internal technical specialists, architects, and external service providers to support the future direction of IT Automation.

**What you must have**
To be successful in this role you must have:
**Qualification**:

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or closely related discipline

**Experience**:

- Three to five years of experience in IT platform/service/product engineering, direct business engagement, and multiple technology domains
- Broad technical knowledge across IT platforms
- Ability to communicate and build relationships outside IT
- Working with Global Teams and Remote Collaboration
- Demonstrated experience with GxP systems, ideally with some direct interaction with regulatory agencies
- Business Domain Analysis
- IT Continuity Management

**Technical Skills (Must have)**
- **Linux** and/or Windows Engineering experience/background
- **IT Orchestration tools** (experience with VMware Orchestration tools - vRO, Ansible)
- **Cloud** experience/background (AWS, Azure)
- **Scripting Languages** (BASH, PowerShell, JavaScript, Python)
- ** Experience with API**:

- **Experience in working with JSON. structures**

**Technical Skills (Nice to have)**
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with ServiceNow integration
- Experience with writing technical documentation

**WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT**
- Limitless opportunities across various areas in IT; well-structured career path
- You will tackle the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry and information technology
- Opportunity to learn and enjoy rewarding career that technology companies don’t bring; the satisfaction of saving lives and making an impact

Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**WHO WE ARE**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, 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 collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us — and start making your impact today.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
**Travel Requirements**:
**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
**Shift**:
**Valid Driving License**:
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**Number of Openings**:
1
**Requisition ID**:R182331