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Server Virtualization Platform Operations Engineer

Eli Lilly and Company · Indianapolis, IN · 2 wk ago
Engineering$65k–$152k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a VMware ESX Platform Operations Engineer to join them. This role involves maintaining system stability, automating operational tasks, and ensuring high availability for critical workloads, including leveraging modern AI automation tools to improve efficiency and streamline engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain system stability and high availability for critical workloads
  • Support multi-datacenter operations
  • Implement solutions that improve availability and reliability
  • Provide mentorship and direction to global Lilly operations SMEs and other platform infrastructure operations SME
  • Drive Infrastructure Operations to never have to fix the same problem twice through adoption of AI OPS, Event Driven Automation, and robust Observability
  • Accelerate initiatives in areas such as: Infrastructure AI OPS automation, cloud IaaS management, and cloud infrastructure as code to enable critical business projects
  • Transform operations processes using proactive, predictive, and automated AI & Observability capabilities

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field
  • 4+ years of experience as a VMware ESX / Platform Engineer
  • Demonstrated experience or exposure to AI-enabled automation tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar)
  • Strong hands-on experience with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency (VMWare/vSphere/Storage replication) at enterprise scale
  • Knowledge and experience with modern VMware ESX, Azure VMware Service, IaaS cloud services (EC2, Azure Compute), or languages and tools such as Python, JSON, YAML, ARM, Git
  • Experience leading operations of a global large-scale ESX infrastructure service

Qualifications

  • Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions
  • Linux, Windows, VMware vSphere, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop
  • Technical leadership supporting enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations

Skills

  • Ability to optimize, configure, and maintain private cloud infrastructure capabilities
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, working across global and diverse teams
  • Deep understanding of networking concepts like VLANs and trunking
  • Experience configuring and leading VMware networking components, including Distributed Switches (vDS), to ensure efficient and secure network communication
  • Experience with Zerto and VMware HCX technologies is a plus

Benefits

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

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).

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