Storage Platform Engineer

About the role

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a Storage Platform Engineer to join them. This role involves influencing the strategy, engineering, and development of Storage computing capabilities for both on-premise and cloud hosting. Additionally, you would be one of the senior Storage platform engineers working with the global storage product owner on the storage strategy for on-premises private cloud and public IaaS Storage services.

Responsibilities

• Work in the Infrastructure Hosting Platform area to influence the strategy, engineering, and development of Storage computing capabilities for on-premise and cloud hosting.
• Be part of the Storage leadership team to improve our cloud Storage infrastructure service, focusing on improving all aspects of infrastructure availability and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, and improvements in observability to prevent outages.
• Provide guidance and direction for global Lilly SMEs and outsourced operations to execute the daily operations associated with this area.

Requirements

• Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions.
• Experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project.
• Experience with storage technologies including design and implementation of Geographically Dispersed setups.
• Strong hands-on experience performing troubleshooting and storage system administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale.
• Familiarity with storage technologies including design and implementation of Geographically Dispersed setups.
• Experience managing, optimizing, and upgrading backup environments and its schedules strategies with a focus on Dell backup solutions like Data Domain, PPDM, and Avamar.
• Knowledge and experience utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Some proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or equivalent.
• A 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
• 5+ years’ experience as a Storage Engineer or Platform OS Engineer with storage experience.