Associate Director, Infrastructure Engineering

About the role

MSD, a global healthcare company active in 140 countries, is looking for an Associate Director to provide strategic leadership and end-to-end operational oversight of Infrastructure, Release and DevOps functions across its Digital Human Health business. The role is highly visible and suits a pragmatic, technically grounded leader who can shape strategy, lead teams and manage financial priorities.

Key responsibilities

• Define, govern and execute the strategic roadmap for infrastructure, DevOps and release management across global product teams.
• Prepare executive summaries, business cases and capability roadmaps for leadership.
• Act as the main contact and escalation point for Infrastructure, DevOps and Release Management with Global Technology and Product teams.
• Govern enterprise release management processes, standards, controls, planning, orchestration and deployment automation.
• Lead multi-cloud infrastructure and oversee Salesforce and Veeva Vault platform operations, including environment management and governance.
• Promote DevOps strategies, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation.
• Lead, coach and develop a global team of technical professionals.
• Manage the squad's budget, categorise work and justify spending, and oversee vendor partnerships.
• Explore AI-native operations and emerging technologies, and ensure compliance with architecture, security and regulatory standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of senior-level experience in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps and Release Management, with a track record of leading and developing people.
• Proven ability to manage departmental budgets and present business cases to executives.
• Excellent English, able to turn complex technical detail into clear executive narratives.

Required skills

• Extensive knowledge of AWS core services (networking, Security Groups, IAM, Transit Gateway, Load Balancing, Lambda, EC2, KMS) and Terraform.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce and Veeva Vault environment management and release governance.
• CI/CD tools such as GitHub and GitHub Actions, containerization, observability and agile principles.
• Daily use of AI assistants and agentic workflows.

What we offer

• Global projects in an international environment and professional growth opportunities.
• Hybrid working model and flexible role pattern.
• Competitive salary and incentive pay, pension and health insurance contributions.
• Annual leave, paid volunteering hours, parental contribution and a cafeteria with tax-free benefits.
• Equipment, parking, and other on-site facilities.