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 a Storage 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 influencing the strategy, engineering and development of Storage computing capabilities for On-premise and Cloud hosting.  Additionally, you would be one of the senior Storage platform engineers working with the global storage product owner on the storage strategy for on-premises private cloud and public IaaS Storage services.  

As part of our Storage leadership team will have the opportunity to improve our cloud Storage infrastructure service.   Our goal is to improve all aspects of our infrastructure availability and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, and improvements in observability to prevent outages to help increase value across the organization. The role will also provide guidance and direction for our global Lilly SMEs and outsourced operations to execute the daily operations associated with this area.

How You’ll SucceedBe 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 BringTechnical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions. Dell SAN and NAS storage, Linux, 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.Familiarity with storage technologies including design and implementation of Geographically Dispersed setupStrong Hands-on experience performing troubleshooting and storage system administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale up to the AI/ML frameworksExperience managing, optimizing, and upgrading backup environment and its schedules strategies with a focus on Dell backup solutions like Data Domain, PPDM and AvamarKnowledge 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.

Basic RequirementsBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field.5+ years’ experience as a Storage Engineer or Platform OS Engineer with storage experience.Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project. 

Additional Information:

Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required)