Senior DevOps Platform Engineer - Software Product Engineering

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.

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

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