Linux Platform Operations Engineer

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.

Join us in revolutionizing Infrastructure Operations with AI and Automation!

The Cloud and Connectivity team is seeking a Linux Platform Operations Engineer. If you're passionate about solving challenges and eager to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply!

What You’ll Be Doing

We are seeking multiple Linux & OpenShift Platform Operations Engineers with 4 plus years’ experience to support and run enterprise Linux and OpenShift environments. The ideal candidate will play a meaningful role in maintaining system stability, automating operational tasks, and ensuring high availability for critical workloads. This position requires both in-depth technical expertise and a proactive approach to problem-solving and operational excellence.

This role will work with the latest Public and Private cloud IaaS services. Our goal is to improve the availability of infrastructure and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, improvements in observability to prevent outages to help increase value across the organization. The role will partner 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 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

• Linux Server & OpenShift Management experience.

• Ability to lead and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

• Experience with RedHat, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Containerized platforms/solutions.

• Proven ability to handle VMware Vsphere, Linux-based VMs, and physical server management (HP, DELL, IBM).

• Experience configuring and maintaining Linux network services (DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls, TCP/IP).

• Ability to turn ideas and concepts into operation solutions. Linux, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop.

• Demonstrated experience in automation and scripting to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

• Experience developing and maintain Ansible playbooks for automation of system configurations and deployments.

• Experience writing Bash/Python scripts for system management and automation.

• Prior experience using Ansible Tower/AWX for centralized automation.

• Prior experience following ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management processes using ServiceNow.

• Experience addressing critical incidents and conducting detailed root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences.

• Ability to coordinate change process, ensuring minimal impact to production environments.

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

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

• Consistent track record of high quality, agile focused, team-based solution delivery.

• Experience in Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, AWS and Azure environments.

• Redhat Satellite patch management tools experience.

• Experience handling GPFS clusters.

• Knowledge of Centrify or similar authentication management tools.

• Experience in a regulated or healthcare environment.

• Proficient in using monitoring tools such as Splunk or similar platforms.

• Experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project.

Basic requirements

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

• 4 to 7 years of experience as a Linux OS/ Platform Engineer.

• Experience with cloud IaaS.

Additional Information:

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

• 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

• Less than 5% 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 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

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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