VMWare Platform Engineer - Eli Lilly and Company

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.

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 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 cloud!

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a VMware ESX Platform Engineer to join them. Do you like to solve challenges and have an interest in large scale impact? Would you like the ability to influence a global public and private cloud infrastructure modernization effort, If so, please apply.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will work in our Infrastructure Hosting Platform area developing and supporting the engineering and operations of VMWare ESX based Infrastructure (IaaS) capabilities hosted on-premises along with Microsoft Azure.

This role will have the opportunity to work with the most critical infrastructure supporting all Lilly Manufacturing and research sites in multi-datacenter stretch clusters.

An additional area of focus will be to look at improving our infrastructure automation and observability patterns.   Our goal is to improve all aspect 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 also provide guidance and direction to our outsourced operations to execution the daily operations associated with this area.

How You’ll Succeed

• Be Bold - You will bring a high learning agility and Infrastructure availability and reliability Engineer skills to help us enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying tech opportunities, and accelerate our cloud journey.
• Be Fast - You will accelerate initiatives in areas such as: Infrastructure AI OPS automation, private cloud resilience, and cloud infrastructure as code to enable critical business projects.
• Be Proactive - You will have groundbreaking chances to build secure, resilient, and reliable hybrid cloud services using proactive, predictive, and automated capabilities.
• Be Your Best - You will learn about new technologies, Infrastructure as Code, and Enterprise Scale Hyper Cloud providers, agile ways of working, and willingness to become an expert.

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 developing new enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations
• Strong Hands-on experience with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency (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.
• 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.

Your Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
• 5+ years’ experience as a VMware, Linux, Windows or Cloud IaaS Platform Engineer
• Experience leading and managing operations of a global large-scale ESX Infrastructure service.

Additional Information:

• Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required)
• <5% travel

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 an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and 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.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.

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