Storage Platform Engineer

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life‑changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a Storage 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 influencing the strategy, engineering and development of storage computing capabilities for 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. As part of our storage leadership team, you will have the opportunity to improve our cloud storage infrastructure service.

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

• Be Bold – Bring high learning agility and infrastructure availability and reliability engineering skills to help us enable the Lilly technology strategy, identify tech opportunities, and accelerate 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, enterprise‑scale hyper‑cloud providers, agile ways of working, and willingness to become an expert.

• Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions. Dell SAN and NAS storage, Linux 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.
• 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.
• Experience managing, optimizing, and upgrading backup environments and their schedules 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.
• 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 storage engineer or platform OS engineer with storage experience.
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