Engineer - Linux Platform

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.

Come help us unlock the power of the cloud!

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a Linux Platform Engineer to join them. Do you like to solve challenges and have an interest in large scale impact? Would you like the ability to influence a global cloud infrastructure modernization and adoption of next generation advanced GPU and High‑Performance Computing (HPC)? If so, please apply.

You will work in our Infrastructure Hosting Platform area leading the strategy, engineering and development of Linux computing capabilities for On‑premise and Cloud hosting. You will also have an opportunity to partner with the AI/ML and High‑Performance Computing (HPC) teams. Additionally, you would be one of the senior Linux platform engineer directing the global Linux strategy for on‑premises private cloud and public IaaS Linux services.

As part of our Linux leadership team you will have the opportunity to improve our cloud Linux infrastructure service. Our goal is to improve all aspects of our infrastructure availability and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, improvements in observability to prevent outages and help increase value across the organization. The role will also provide guidance and direction to our global Lilly SMEs and outsourced operations to execute the daily operations associated with this area.

• Be Bold – Bring a high learning agility and infrastructure availability and reliability engineering skills to help us enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying tech opportunities, and accelerating our cloud journey.
• Be Fast – Accelerate initiatives in areas such as AI/ML acceleration, Infrastructure AI OPS automation, cloud IaaS management, and cloud infrastructure as code to enable critical business projects.
• Be Proactive – Build secure, resilient, and reliable hybrid cloud services using proactive, predictive, and automated capabilities.
• Be Your Best – Learn about new technologies, AI/ML based HPC, large scale GPU clustering, infrastructure as code, and enterprise scale hyper cloud providers, agile ways of working, and become an expert.

• Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions. Linux, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop.
• Technical leadership developing new enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations.
• Strong hands‑on experience performing troubleshooting and Linux system administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale up to the AI/ML frameworks.
• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Apptainer/Singularity.
• Knowledge and experience utilizing configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, or Puppet.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years’ experience as a Linux OS/Platform Engineer.
• Demonstrated experience leading a global large‑scale infrastructure project.

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…