Senior DevOPs Engineer

Senior DevOps Platform Engineer – Software Product Engineering Tech@Lilly

Organization Overview:

The Software Product Engineering organization (SPE) delivers innovative tech solutions to aid, accelerate, and support work done across Lilly. This role is targeted for a DevOps engineer who enjoys working with a cross-functional team, developing robust infrastructure and code in support of accelerating business processes, and thinking innovatively

Key Responsibilities & Objectives:

• Work as a Lead Engineer specializing in Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services on a team of full stack software developers to develop and maintain software platforms and DevOps processes.
• Guide and collaborate with internal application teams to deploy solutions on a custom Cloud Deployment Platform.
• Improve and maintain reusable pipeline templates and patterns for automated deployment of cloud infrastructure and code
• Develop and support high-quality automation workflows inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
• Work with software developers and operations engineers to improve the software delivery process.
• Stay up to date on the latest DevSecOps practices and technologies.
• Strive to provide internal customers with excellent customer service.
• Effectively contribute to the communication of platform health, risks, and issues to the program partners, stakeholders, and management teams.
• Independently resolve conflicts between prioritization and scope.
• Be a self-starter, able to come up with solutions to problems and complete those solutions while coordinating with other teams.
• Develop secure, quality code and associated tests. Perform code reviews and participate in pair programming sessions.
• Work in a modern Agile environment to deliver customer value with regular cadence.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8 to 11 years of professional experience in the industry.
• 4+ years of development experience in Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions, Containers, Kubernetes, and high performance computing.
• 3+ years hands-on experience in building DevOps pipelines for automating, building, and deploying Microservice Applications, APIs, and Non-container Artifacts.
• 4+ years hands-on GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm Charts.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with CI/CD technologies including Microservices, Terraform, and pipeline creation/management (e.g., Github, Artifactory/JFROG, etc).
• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the practices i.e (Testing, Code Reviews, Code Coherence, use of multiple frameworks/libraries).
• Hands-on developer knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies
• Knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS or Azure or GCP and a willingness to upskill as the company’s adoption grows.
• Experience developing scripts or automating tasks using languages such as Bash, Powershell, Python, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Extensive experience in container-based technologies.
• Proven ability to design, develop, and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms
• Ability to lead a team in resolving technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
• Experience working with Git, specifically working in a team which adopts modern Git practices.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Any AWS Certification (preferably DevOps)
• Any Agile Certification (preferably scaled Agile).
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and architecture best practices.
• Experience in working on Code Quality SAST and DAST tools like SonarQube/SonarCloud, Checkmarx, and Snyk.
• Strong teamwork, self-management, bias for action, & problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent proactive oral and written communication skills.

Location: Lilly India, Bengaluru, India