Senior Kubernetes Engineer

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.

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. This position will report to the Team Lead – Software Configuration & Development and will partner with individuals from across Tech@Lilly organizations to deliver solutions and enable tech supporting a wide range of software and business processes. 

Key Responsibilities & Objectives: 

• Work as an engineer specializing in Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services on a global team of full stack software developers to develop and maintain software platforms and DevOps processes
  • Participate in the management, design, solutioning, and maintenance of software development and deployment processes
  • 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
  • Build and maintain a continuous automation framework for the software development and deployment process
  • Monitor and troubleshoot the software delivery process, while working with software developers and operations engineers to improve the software delivery process
  • Stay up to date on the latest DevSecOps practices and technologies
  • Effectively contribute to the communication of platform health, risks, and issues to the program partners, stakeholders, and management teams
  • Resolve most conflicts between prioritization and scope independently but intuitively raise complex or consequential issues to senior management
  • 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 & Experience Expectations: 

• 4-year (bachelors) degree in computer science, software engineering, data science or similar field
• 8+ years of total experience
• 3+ years of development experience in Amazon Web Services.
• 5+ years of experience in Containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and high performance computing is mandatory.
• 3+ years of experience in GoLang Programming is mandatory.
• 2+ years of experience in routing technologies such as Traefik, Istio, nginx etc.
• 2+ years hands-on experience in building DevOps pipelines for automating, building, and deploying Microservice Applications, APIs, and Non-container Artifacts
• 2+ years hands-on GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm Charts.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with CI/CD technologies including Microservices, Terraform, and pipeline creation/management (e.g., Github, Artifactory/JFROG, etc) is Mandatory.
• Experience with observability tools like Datalog, New Relic, and open-source observability ecosystems (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
• Knowledge of AWS and Azure and a willingness to upskill as the company’s adoption grows
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Hands-on developer knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies
• Knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS, Azure, and GCP
• 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 
• Experience working in a software development team following modern software development practices (Testing, Code Reviews, Code Coherence, use of multiple frameworks/libraries) 

Additional Skills/Preferences: 

• Be a self-starter, able to come up with solutions to problems and complete those solutions while coordinating with other teams
• Assist in bridging skillsets and facilitate knowledge sharing across the development team, fostering a cross-functional environment where every team member can effectively contribute
• 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, Veracode, Checkmarx, and Snyk
• Experience working with teams across organizational and geographic boundaries and multiple levels within the organization 
• Strong teamwork, self-management, bias for action, & problem-solving abilities 
• Excellent proactive oral and written communication skills 
• Experience in multiple common tech languages 

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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