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.
Position: DevOps, Research IDS
Path/Level: R1
Note: Roles are posted at the lowest level of a band, however, employees should search across all levels of the band to identify all opportunities. Employees hired on banded positions (ex: P1-P3, R1-R2, B1-B3, etc.) transfer at their current level, despite the level indicated on the job posting. For example, if a P2 candidate is selected for a P1-P3 banded position, the candidate will remain a P2 in the new role.
Lilly’s Purpose
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 39,000 employees 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 globe.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work with stakeholders such as product owners to define service level objectives (SLOs)
for system operations. Track performance against SLOs in partnership with monitoring
teams or other stakeholders, and ensure systems continue to meet SLOs over time.
Create dashboards and reports to communicate key metrics.
• Collaborate with development teams to promote the concept of reliability engineering
during all phases of the software development lifecycle to detect and correct
performance issues and meet availability goals.
• Design, code, test, and deliver software to automate manual operational work (i.e.,
“toil”). Conduct blameless post mortems to troubleshoot priority incidents.
• Perform analytics on previous incidents to understand root causes and better predict
and prevent future issues. Use automation to reduce the probability and/or impact of
problem recurrence.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend monitoring tools and diagnostic techniques to
improve system observability. Participate in system design consulting, platform
management, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement in software quality and infrastructure reliability and
resilience. Oversee, design, implement, and manage DevOps capabilities using
continuous integration/continuous delivery toolsets and automation.
Skills and Experience:
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Strong interpersonal and written and verbal
communication skills.
• Highly adaptable to changing circumstances. Interest in continuously learning new skills
and technologies.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with incident and response management. Experience with Agile and DevOps
development methodologies.
• Experience with container technologies and supporting tools (e.g. Docker
Swarm,Kubernetes).
• Run and maintain our production infrastructure hosted on AWS.
• Experience with working in AWS cloud ecosystems .(Lambda,Glue,Pyspark etc)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch.
• Experience with configuration management systems (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Chef,
Terraform).
• Experience working with continuous integration/continuous deployment tools (e.g. Git,
Jenkin).
• Create meaningful dashboards/reports for application telemetry and infrastructure
health for pro-actively identifying performance constraints and bottlenecks
• Design and build custom tools as needed to support process optimization, challenging
the status-quo and improving operational efficiency
• Monitor, measure and improve the reliability, availability and scalability of IT
Infrastructure, applications and services
Additional Skills/Preferences:
• Previous Pharmaceutical IT experience would an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, presentation skills.
• Excellent self-management skills. Strong problem-solving skills, Process improvement
skills
• Organization skills, Self-management. Demonstrated ability to evaluate, facilitate, and
drive towards risk-based decision making. Proven team player and the ability to work in
a dynamic environment, where needs and priorities can change, with compressed
deadlines.
About the Organization:
Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities 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 the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.
Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing around the world to create new state-of-the-art manufacturing site’s and continue expanding our existing facilities to created capacity required to continue with our mission. The brand-new facilities will utilize the latest technology, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment.
Note: When applying internally for a position your current supervisor receives notification that you have applied to the position. We encourage employees to discuss the opportunity with their supervisor prior to applying.
Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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