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 working in the Infrastructure Hosting Platform area, 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. The goal is to improve all aspects of the infrastructure availability and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, and improvements in observability to prevent outages and increase value across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Work in the Infrastructure Hosting Platform area, influencing the strategy, engineering, and development of Storage computing capabilities for both on-premise and cloud hosting.
• Be part of the Storage leadership team to improve the cloud Storage infrastructure service.
• 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.
• Familiarity 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 up to the AI/ML frameworks.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project.

Skills

• Technical leadership developing new enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations.
• Familiarity 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 up to the AI/ML frameworks.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions.
• 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.

Pay

• The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $158,400.

Schedule

• This is a Full-time equivalent role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required) with 5% travel.