Storage & Backup Platform Operations Engineer

Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Storage Platform Operations Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure through AI and automation. In this pivotal role, you will lead the technical operations of Storage and Backup services, ensuring high availability and reliability across global platforms. Your expertise in Dell SAN storage solutions and cloud management will be crucial in transforming operational processes and driving innovative solutions. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to making a significant impact in healthcare technology, where your contributions will help shape the future of infrastructure operations.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years experience as a Storage Platform Engineer required.
• Technical leadership and hands-on experience in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive global technical operations of Storage & Backups.
• Improve infrastructure availability and reliability through automation.

Skills

Dell SAN storage solutions

AI OPS

Event Driven Automation

Observability

Cloud IaaS management

Linux administration

Ansible

Puppet

Azure/AWS

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Tools

CIFS/SMB

NFS

Dell storage/backup management tools

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 a Storage Platform Operations Engineer to join them. 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

We're seeking multiple experienced Storage & Backup Operations Engineers to drive our global technical operations of Storage & Backups within our Infrastructure Hosting Platform. You'll be at the forefront of developing and supporting the engineering and operations of Storage and Backup Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities hosted both on-premises and in Public Cloud.

You will work in our Infrastructure Hosting Platform area leading the global technical operations of Storage and Backup capabilities for Lilly. Additionally, you would be working with the Storage Engineering team on strategy for on-premises private cloud and public IaaS Storage Block and Files services.

This role will strive to improve our Storage and Backup infrastructure service. Our goal is to improve all aspects 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. The role will work with our global Lilly operations SMEs and other platform infrastructure operations SME to deliver the daily operations associated with this area.

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 storage 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

• Technical expertise and leadership skills to transform ideas and concepts into operational solutions.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Dell SAN storage and backup solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment.

• Cloud certifications are advantageous, or support for development is available.

• Technical leadership supporting enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations.

• Strong Hands-on experience performing troubleshooting storage platform administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale up to the AI/ML frameworks.

• Collaborate with Windows and Linux platform Domain Experts to identify and resolve server performance issues in a large enterprise infrastructure environment.

• Sound knowledge of CIFS/SMB, NFS, multi-protocol and basic Linux administration skills.

• Knowledge and experience using configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, or Puppet.

• 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.

• Familiarity with other Dell storage/backup management tools is a plus.

• Working knowledge of Azure/AWS and IaaS services.

• Experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project.

Your Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field.

• 4 to 7 years’ experience as a Storage Platform Engineer.

Additional Information:

• Onsite role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required).

• Less than 5% travel.

• Expected Shift Hours: 11:00am – 8:00pm US Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 12:00-9:00pm US Eastern Daylight-Saving Time (EDT).

• Available Shifts: Monday to Friday or Thursday to Monday.