Associate - Server Virtualization Platform Operations

Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: January 5, 2026

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. Join us in revolutionizing Infrastructure Operations with AI and Automation! The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a VMware ESX 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 global public and private cloud infrastructure operations through AI and Automation? If so, please apply. What You’ll Be Doing We are seeking multiple Server Virtualization Platform Operations Engineers with 4 plus years' experience to support and manage enterprise VMware ESX-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities, both on-premises and in Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in maintaining system stability, automating operational tasks, and ensuring high availability for critical workloads. This position requires both in-depth technical expertise and a proactive approach to problem-solving and operational excellence. If you have a solid background in VMware administration, server virtualization, and thrive in multifaceted enterprise environments, this position offers an excellent chance to advance your career. You'll be involved in maintaining critical infrastructure components, supporting multi-datacenter operations, and implementing solutions that improve availability and reliability. This role will work with the most critical infrastructure supporting all Lilly Manufacturing and research sites in multi-datacenter stretch clusters. Our goal is to improve the availability of infrastructure and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, improvements in observability to prevent outages to help increase value across the organization. The role will also provide mentorship and direction to 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 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 to turn ideas and concepts into solutions. Linux, Windows, VMware vSphere, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop. Technical leadership supporting enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations. Strong Hands-on experience with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency (VMWare/vSphere/Storage replication) at enterprise scale along with virtualized Windows or Linux OS platforms. Knowledge and experience with modern VMware ESX, Azure VMware Service, IaaS cloud services (EC2, Azure Compute), or languages and tools such as Python, JSON, YAML, ARM, Git is a bonus. Ability to optimize, configure, and maintain private cloud infrastructure capabilities to help Build, Configure, and Maintain systems. 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. Deep understanding of networking concepts like VLANs and trunking. Prior experience configuring and leading VMware networking components, including Distributed Switches (vDS), to ensure efficient and secure network communication. Experience with Zerto and VMware HCX technologies is a plus. Experience leading operations of a global large-scale ESX Infrastructure service. Your Basic Qualifications 4 to 7 years’ experience as a VMware ESX / Platform Engineer required with bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology OR a high school diploma/GED and Minimum of 9 years of experience as a VMware ESX/Platform Engineer without a degree. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) now nor in the future for this role. Additional Information: Onsite role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required). Expected Shift Hours: 11:30am – 8:30pm US Eastern Standard Time (EST) November - March / 12:30-9:30pm US Eastern Daylight-Saving Time (EDT) March - November Shift Rotation Monthly: Monday to Friday | Thursday to Monday Rotation and Shift Hours subject to change Less than 5% travel. Organization Overview Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible 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 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 $64,500 - $151,800 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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