Site Reliability Engineer – Oracle DB

Location: Indianapolis

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.

Enable reliable, secure, and high‑performing Oracle Database platforms by driving automation, modernizing hybrid and cloud data services, and enforcing SRE principles that ensure enterprise‑grade availability, observability, compliance, and operational excellence.

The Tech@Lilly team is actively looking for an experienced
** Oracle Database Site Reliability Engineer
** who is passionate about advancing enterprise‑scale Oracle platforms, modernizing database operations, and delivering cloud‑ready Oracle services. If you thrive in solving complex reliability challenges, automating operational toil, strengthening governance, and enabling application teams—this role is for you. Your expertise will accelerate innovation, improve platform resilience, and support our mission of delivering medicines that make life better for people around the world.
** What You’ll Be Doing:
** You will serve as a core engineering and operational expert for
** Oracle Database
** across
** on‑premise, hybrid, and cloud environments**. In this role, you will ensure availability, resiliency, automation, observability, and lifecycle management of mission‑critical Oracle services. You will partner closely with Cloud Infrastructure, Security, SMEs, and Application Engineering teams to modernize, optimize, and secure enterprise Oracle database operations.
** How You’ll Succeed:
**** Operational Support
*** Provide day‑to‑day administration and operational support for Oracle Database (19c, and above).
* Perform performance tuning, patching (RU/RUR), upgrades, backup/recovery, and capacity management.
* Ensure Oracle platform reliability, availability, and compliance with enterprise security standards.
* Handle database incidents, requests, changes, and problem management through ITSM workflows.
** Oracle Database Administration
*** Install, configure, upgrade, and patch Oracle Database across single‑instance and RAC environments.
* Troubleshoot Oracle database issues including wait events, locking, contention, I/O bottlenecks, and memory pressure.
* Optimize SQL performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, partitioning, and statistics management.
* Support new database provisioning, schema management, maintenance jobs, and platform integrations
** Hybrid & Cloud Oracle Modernization
*** Support Oracle Database deployments on‑prem and in cloud platforms (OCI, Azure, AWS).
* Assist with Oracle database migrations and upgrades using tools such as Data Pump, and RMAN.
* Design and support HA/DR architectures including Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Active Data Guard.
* Enable cross‑region and cross‑platform disaster recovery strategies.
** Automation & AIOps
*** Build automation using Python, Shell scripting, Ansible, Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, and other IaC tools.
* Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code for Oracle database provisioning, configuration, and patching.
* Apply AIOps practices for proactive monitoring, anomaly detection, and predictive alerting.
** Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
*** Partner with Cloud Engineering, Operations, Security, and Application teams to deliver reliable Oracle database services.
* Drive modernization initiatives through automation, observability, and AI‑driven insights.
* Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and Oracle best‑practice documentation.
** Capacity Planning & Scalability
*** Forecast Oracle database growth and manage compute, storage, and licensing utilization.
* Ensure Oracle platforms scale efficiently to support high‑volume enterprise workloads.
** Database Security & Compliance
*** Enforce enterprise security standards including RBAC, least‑privilege…