Engineer - HPC Platform

Overview

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 work to discover and bring medicines to those who need them, improve understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We put people first and seek colleagues who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Be a catalyst for innovation in high performance computing at Lilly—seize the chance to transform and accelerate our HPC future!

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is seeking an HPC Platform Engineer. This role will focus on enabling analytical, statistical, and scientific computing capabilities within Lilly’s high performance computing infrastructure. We are looking for an HPC Platform Engineer to help accelerate the next era of high performance computing innovation.

• You will lead the engineering and operations of design, build, and maintain scalable HPC platforms.
• You will play a crucial role in enabling Lilly’s HPC infrastructure and experiences.
• Collaborate with researchers and scientists to optimize performance and streamline workflows.
• Leverage tooling and automation for orchestration, resource scheduling, data access, and reproducibility.
• Evolve and operate public cloud and on-premises environments with a focus on availability and performance for HPC workloads.
• Define and monitor infrastructure metrics and resource utilization, among others.

• Be Bold — You will bring a high learning agility and platform engineering skills to enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying opportunities to accelerate our HPC journey.
• Be Fast — You will advance initiatives to enable critical business projects.
• Be Proactive — You will have opportunities to leverage agile ways of working with a willingness to become an expert in deploying HPC solutions.
• Be Your Best — You will learn about new technologies in HPC.

• Hands-on experience in HPC platforms, including knowledge of accelerators (e.g., GPU), HPC schedulers (e.g., Altair Grid Engine, Slurm), Kubernetes platforms, and container technologies (Docker, Apptainer).
• Demonstrated experience in HPC workloads, infrastructure, and cluster architectures.
• Expertise with the Linux command line, Linux troubleshooting, and HPC administration.
• Experience with Dev Ops tools such as Github, Chef, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Experience with automating infrastructure and applications.
• Passion for continual learning and staying informed of new technologies, infrastructure trends, and approaches in the HPC field.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in languages such as Python or Bash.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
• 2+ years’ experience as an HPC Platform Engineer.

Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.

• Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale infrastructure project.
• Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required).

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies. 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 technology professionals from diverse backgrounds to deliver innovative solutions.

The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class customer experiences. This team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.

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