Storage Platform Engineer

Lilly • Indianapolis, IN

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
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.

Requirements

• Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions.
• 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 setup
• Strong Hands-on experience performing troubleshooting and storage system administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale up to the AI/ML frameworks
• Experience managing, optimizing, and upgrading backup environment and its schedules strategies with a focus on Dell backup solutions like Data Domain, PPDM and Avamar
• 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.
• Bachelor’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.

Nice To Haves

• Dell SAN and NAS storage, Linux, or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop.

Responsibilities

• Influence the strategy, engineering and development of Storage computing capabilities for On-premise and Cloud hosting.
• Work with the global storage product owner on the storage strategy for on-premises private cloud and public IaaS Storage services.
• Improve our cloud Storage infrastructure service.
• 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.
• Provide guidance and direction for our global Lilly SMEs and outsourced operations to execute the daily operations associated with this area.

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees