Storage & Backup Platform Operations Engineer

Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

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 Infrastructure Operations through AI & Automation! The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a Storage Platform Operations Engineer to join them. Do you like to solve challenges and have an interest in large scale impact? Would you like the ability to impact a global public and private cloud infrastructure operations through AI and Automation? If so, please apply. What You’ll Be Doing We're seeking multiple experienced Storage & Backup Operations Engineers to drive our global technical operations of Storage & Backups within our Infrastructure Hosting Platform. You'll be at the forefront of developing and supporting the engineering and operations of Storage and Backup Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities hosted both on-premises and in Public Cloud. You will work in our Infrastructure Hosting Platform area leading the global technical operations of Storage and Backup capabilities for Lilly. Additionally, you would be working with the Storage Engineering team on strategy for on-premises private cloud and public IaaS Storage Block and Files services. This role will strive to improve our Storage and Backup 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 to help increase value across the organization. The role will work with our global Lilly operations SMEs and other platform infrastructure operations SME to deliver the daily operations associated with this area. How You’ll Succeed Be Bold – You will drive Infrastructure Operations to never have to fix the same problem twice through adoption of AI OPS, Event Driven Automation, and robust Observability. Be Fast - You will accelerate initiatives in areas such as: Infrastructure AI OPS automation, cloud IaaS management, and cloud infrastructure as code to enable critical business projects. Be Proactive - You will have groundbreaking chances to transform our storage operations processes using proactive, predictive, and automated AI & Observability capabilities. Be Your Best - You will bring a high learning agility and Infrastructure operations / engineer skills to help us enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying tech opportunities, and accelerate our AI OPS journey. What You Should Bring Technical expertise and leadership skills to transform ideas and concepts into operational solutions. Extensive hands-on experience with Dell SAN storage and backup solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment. Cloud certifications are advantageous, or support for development is available. Technical leadership supporting enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations. Strong Hands-on experience performing troubleshooting storage platform administration with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency at enterprise scale up to the AI/ML frameworks Collaborate with Windows and Linux platform Domain Experts to identify and resolve server performance issues in a large enterprise infrastructure environment. Sound knowledge of CIFS/SMB, NFS, multi-protocol and basic Linux administration skills. Knowledge and experience using configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, or Puppet. 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. Familiarity with other Dell storage/backup management tools is a plus. Working knowledge of Azure/AWS and IaaS services Experience leading a global large-scale Infrastructure project. Your Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field. 4 to 7 years’ experience as a Storage Platform Engineer. Additional Information: Onsite role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required). Less than 5% travel. Expected Shift Hours: 11:00am – 8:00pm US Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 12:00-9:00pm US Eastern Daylight-Saving Time (EDT) Available Shifts: Monday to Friday or Thursday to Monday 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 is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $63,750 - $145,200 Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly

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