At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.
Come help us unlock the power of the cloud!
The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for an Linux Platform Engineer to join them. Do you like to solve challenges and have an interest in large scale impact? Would you like the ability to influence a global cloud infrastructure modernization and adoption of next generation advanced GPU and High-Performance Computing (HPC)? If so, please apply.
What You’ll Be Doing
You will work in our Infrastructure Hosting Platform area leading the strategy, engineering and development of Linux computing capabilities for On-premise and Cloud hosting. You will also have an opportunity to partner with the AI/ML and High-Performance Computing (HPC) teams. Additionally, you would be one of the senior Linux platform engineer directing the global Linux strategy for on-premises private cloud and public IaaS Linux services.
As part of our Linux leadership team will have the opportunity to improve our cloud Linux infrastructure service. Our goal is to improve all aspect of our infrastructure availability and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, improvements in observability to prevent outages to help increase value across the organization. The role will also provide guidance and direction to our global Lilly SMEs and outsourced operations to execution the daily operations associated with this area.
How You’ll Succeed
- Be Bold - You will bring a high learning agility and Infrastructure availability and reliability Engineer skills to help us enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying tech opportunities, and accelerate our cloud journey.
- Be Fast - You will accelerate initiatives in areas such as: AI/ML acceleration, Infrastructure AI OPS automation, cloud IaaS management, and cloud infrastructure as code to enable critical business projects.
- Be Proactive - You will have groundbreaking chances to build secure, resilient, and reliable hybrid cloud services using proactive, predictive, and automated capabilities.
- Be Your Best - You will learn about new technologies, AI/ML based HPC, large scale GPU clustering, Infrastructure as Code, and Enterprise Scale Hyper Cloud providers, agile ways of working, and willingness to become an expert.
What You Should Bring
- Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions. Linux, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop.
- Technical leadership developing new enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations.
- Strong Hands-on experience performing troubleshooting and Linux system administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale up to the AI/ML frameworks
- Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Apptainer/Singularity
- Knowledge and experience utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Some proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or equivalent.
- Consistent track record of high quality, agile focused, team-based solution delivery.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, working across global and diverse teams.
Your Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
- 5+ years’ experience as a Linux OS/ Platform Engineer
- Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project.
Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.
Additional Information:
- Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required)
- <5% travel
**Organization Overview **
Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.
The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.
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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$64,500 - $158,400
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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