Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Merck & Co., Inc.

Prague, Czech Republic
Hybrid
Own reliability, scalability, and security
Define and own slos/slis, error budgets
Build and maintain iac, ci/cd pipelines
You will own reliability, scalability, and security for critical platforms and applications that support medicines, vaccines, and animal health products worldwide

Job Summary

  • You will own reliability, scalability, and security for critical platforms and applications that support medicines, vaccines, and animal health products worldwide.
  • This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership: you’ll drive modernization, shape operational best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across products and regions to deliver resilient, high-performing systems.
  • Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally, Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern, Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more.

Matching Summary

You will own reliability, scalability, and security for critical platforms and applications that support medicines, vaccines, and animal health products worldwide.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Own reliability, scalability, and security
  • Define and own SLOs/SLIs, error budgets
  • Build and maintain IaC, CI/CD pipelines
  • Drive observability and proactive monitoring
  • Lead incident response for complex issues
  • Coach and mentor SRE and DevOps engineers
  • Partner with product engineering and security teams

Nice-to-have

  • Experience in regulated industries
  • Familiarity with Conversational BI tools
  • Experience with Power Platform
  • Experience with LLM/Copilot concepts
  • Leadership experience in scaling teams

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, Platform, or DevOps
  • Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Strong skills with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
  • Demonstrated experience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, SLAs
  • Proficiency with observability tooling
  • Solid programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash)
  • Strong knowledge of networking and cloud security

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