Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme, Rahway, New Jersey, us, 07065
Are you passionate about security engineering and looking to make a significant impact in a leading biopharmaceutical company?
Join our company as a Sr. Specialist Engineer and play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing our next-generation security telemetry and analytics platforms.
You will drive complex engineering initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact security outcomes.
If you have hands-on technical depth and solution ownership, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Responsibilities
Design and optimize enterprise-scale Sentinel SIEM/analytics solutions.
Architect and manage ADX clusters for scalable, cost-optimized query and hunting workloads.
Build and tune Cribl pipelines (Edge & Stream) for telemetry routing, enrichment, and normalization.
Integrate across the Azure stack (Logic Apps, Event Hub, Functions, Key Vault, etc.) for automation and resilience.
Design and engineer ingestion pipelines from multiple log sources into Sentinel/ADX.
Develop and optimize KQL queries, detection rules, dashboards, and workbooks.
Ensure telemetry pipelines are reliable, scalable, and compliant with enterprise logging standards.
Drive performance benchmarking and cost governance for large-scale data ingestion.
Act as a technical SME and advisor for cross-functional security and infrastructure teams.
Mentor and support Specialist-level engineers to uplift team skills in Sentinel, ADX, and Cribl.
Partner with incident response, threat hunting, and cloud engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
Required Qualifications
6–10+ years of IT/security engineering experience, with 3–5+ years focused on Microsoft Sentinel & Azure security stack.
Proven expertise in ADX schema design, query optimization, and capacity planning.
Hands-on experience with Cribl (Stream, Edge) for enterprise-scale log routing and transformation.
Strong proficiency in KQL, Azure Logic Apps, and data ingestion pipelines.
Deep understanding of SIEM architectures, SOAR automation, and cloud-native security controls.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with ServiceNow SIR or equivalent case management integrations.
Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping for detection engineering.
Scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation.
Strong communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Join our company as a Sr. Specialist Engineer and play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing our next-generation security telemetry and analytics platforms.
You will drive complex engineering initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact security outcomes.
If you have hands-on technical depth and solution ownership, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Responsibilities
Design and optimize enterprise-scale Sentinel SIEM/analytics solutions.
Architect and manage ADX clusters for scalable, cost-optimized query and hunting workloads.
Build and tune Cribl pipelines (Edge & Stream) for telemetry routing, enrichment, and normalization.
Integrate across the Azure stack (Logic Apps, Event Hub, Functions, Key Vault, etc.) for automation and resilience.
Design and engineer ingestion pipelines from multiple log sources into Sentinel/ADX.
Develop and optimize KQL queries, detection rules, dashboards, and workbooks.
Ensure telemetry pipelines are reliable, scalable, and compliant with enterprise logging standards.
Drive performance benchmarking and cost governance for large-scale data ingestion.
Act as a technical SME and advisor for cross-functional security and infrastructure teams.
Mentor and support Specialist-level engineers to uplift team skills in Sentinel, ADX, and Cribl.
Partner with incident response, threat hunting, and cloud engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
Required Qualifications
6–10+ years of IT/security engineering experience, with 3–5+ years focused on Microsoft Sentinel & Azure security stack.
Proven expertise in ADX schema design, query optimization, and capacity planning.
Hands-on experience with Cribl (Stream, Edge) for enterprise-scale log routing and transformation.
Strong proficiency in KQL, Azure Logic Apps, and data ingestion pipelines.
Deep understanding of SIEM architectures, SOAR automation, and cloud-native security controls.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with ServiceNow SIR or equivalent case management integrations.
Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping for detection engineering.
Scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation.
Strong communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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