Senior Principal SRE Engineer: Reliability Strategy Lead

BioSpace

Indianapolis (IN)

On-site

USD 129,000 - 231,000

Full time

10 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan
Health benefits

Job summary

Lilly is seeking a Senior Principal SRE Engineering Lead to own reliability for a multi‑application production estate. You will set SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead observability standards while partnering with cross‑functional teams to deliver durable production changes.

You will mentor engineers, drive durable fixes after incidents, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.
  • 7+ years of progressive engineering experience, including multi‑application estate SRE leadership.
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise‑scale SRE platforms with observability
  • Experience with secure operational practices, audit evidence, and validated systems.
  • Leadership in incident response, blameless postmortems, and durable engineering work.

Responsibilities

  • Own SRE reliability strategy and governance (SLOs, error budgets).
  • Define SLIs/SLOs across production estate by risk and impact.
  • Drive incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Lead adoption of observability standards and deployment safety practices.
  • Mentor senior engineers and contribute to enterprise reliability standards.

Skills

SRE leadership
Incident command
Observability
Reliability engineering
Regulatory compliance
Blameless postmortems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform
Kubernetes
Datadog
Splunk
Grafana/Prometheus
New Relic

Job description

Lilly is seeking a Senior Principal SRE Engineering Lead to own reliability for a multi‑application production estate. You will set SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead observability standards while partnering with cross‑functional teams to deliver durable production changes.

You will mentor engineers, drive durable fixes after incidents, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements in a highly regulated environment.

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