SRE Engineer: Self-Healing Automation & Runbooks

Eli Lilly and Company

Indianapolis (IN)

On-site

USD 66,000 - 158,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Lilly is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Indianapolis to build self-healing automation and durable fixes across a multi-application estate. You will encode SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks into automated processes and work closely with the Senior Principal SRE Engineer to decide when automation or manual steps are warranted.

This hands-on role focuses on execution, validation, and continuous improvement of resiliency patterns, incident response, and structured postmortems, ensuring

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical engineering discipline.
5+ years of engineering experience in Site Reliability/Production engineering.
Experience with self-healing automation or runbook-driven remediation in a multi-application estate.

Responsibilities

Design and implement self-healing automation and resilience patterns.
Perform chaos testing to validate automated remedies before production use.
Author and maintain remediation runbooks with safe execution and rollback steps.
Collaborate with Operations and automation teams to validate outcomes.
Lead or contribute to incident RCA and blameless post-mortems to drive durable fixes.

Skills

Self-healing automation

Chaos testing

AWS reliability services

Runbooks

Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Splunk/Datadog/New Relic

Job description

This hands-on role focuses on execution, validation, and continuous improvement of resiliency patterns, incident response, and structured postmortems, ensuring

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