Principal - Cloud Platform Engineer

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking Cloud Platform Engineers to enhance their cloud operations through innovative AI and automation solutions. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge IaaS services and improve cloud infrastructure reliability. You'll collaborate with diverse teams to ensure optimal performance and continuous improvement of cloud services. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to create impactful solutions in a global environment, this position is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to making life better for people around the world.

Benefits

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Vacation benefits

Employee assistance program

Fitness benefits

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure management, focusing on multi-cloud environments.
• Expertise in major cloud platforms and cloud services best practices.

Responsibilities

• Work on global technical operations of cloud computing capabilities.
• Drive Infrastructure Operations through AI OPS and Event Driven Automation.

Skills

Cloud Platform Proficiency

Automation and Scripting

AI/ML Integration

Security and Compliance

DevOps Practices

Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

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 Infrastructure Operations through AI & Automation!

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for multiple Cloud Platform Engineers to join them to help enable Cloud operations model. Do you like to solve challenges and have an interest in large scale impact? Would you like the ability to impact a global public and private cloud infrastructure operations through AI and Automation? If so, please apply.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will work in our Infrastructure Hosting Platform area working on the global technical operations of cloud computing capabilities for Lilly. Additionally, you would be working as part of the larger cloud foundation team on strategy for cloud services that will be offered by Hosting and Cloud Services team. In this role, you will work closely with various teams and customers to ensure the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of our cloud services.

This role will have the opportunity to work with the latest public cloud IaaS services. In addition, this role will have the opportunity to improve our cloud infrastructure services. 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.

How You’ll Succeed:

• Be Bold – You will drive Infrastructure Operations to never have to fix the same problem twice through adoption of AI OPS, Event Driven Automation, and robust Observability.
• Be Fast - You will accelerate initiatives in areas such as: 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 transform our operations processes using proactive, predictive, and automated AI & Observability capabilities.
• Be Your Best - You will bring a high learning agility and Infrastructure operations / engineer skills to help us enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying tech opportunities, and accelerate our AI OPS journey.

What You Should Bring:

• Cloud Platform Proficiency: Expertise in major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform is crucial. This includes a deep understanding of cloud services, architecture, and best practices for deployment, scaling, and management.
• Automation and Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell, Ansible and familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• AI/ML Integration: Knowledge of AI/ML frameworks and tools and experience in deploying and managing AI/ML models in a cloud environment. Understanding of MLOps practices is also beneficial.
• Security and Compliance: Strong understanding of cloud security principles, compliance standards, and best practices for securing cloud environments.
• DevOps Practices: Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines to streamline the development and deployment processes.
• Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex technical issues and develop effective solutions. This includes troubleshooting and optimizing cloud infrastructure
• Technical leadership supporting enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations.

Your Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field
• 7+ years in infrastructure management, focusing on multi-cloud environments, including 3+ years in cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing operations of a global large-scale Infrastructure service.

Additional Information:

• Hybrid role (minimum 3 days in the office) located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required).
• Expected US business hours with team afterhours support needs for evening and weekends.
• Less than 10% 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.

Lilly’s Digital Health team is focused on leveraging next generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected devices, data, and analytics to transform the patient experiences and improving treatment outcomes. This team is committed to meeting patients where they are, through the design and development of innovative science-driven, patient-centered health technology, such as connected devices and digital biomarkers in clinical trials and mobile apps that can deliver personalized treatment plans alongside our medicines.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$63,750 - $180,400

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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