Principal - AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: January 6, 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. Come help us unlock the power of the Infrastructure Operations through AI & Automation! The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to join them to help enable a Cloud operations model. 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 You will work in our Cloud Engineering area working on the global technical operations of cloud computing capabilities for Lilly. Additionally, you would be working as part of the larger cloud foundation team on strategy for cloud services that will be offered by the Cloud Engineering teams. In this role, you will work closely with various teams and customers to ensure the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of our cloud services. This role will have the opportunity to work with the latest public cloud IaaS services. In addition, this role will have the opportunity to improve our cloud infrastructure services. 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. 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 Cloud Platform Expertise: Advanced proficiency in AWS, including operations, deployment, scaling, and management of AWS Cloud native services. Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is highly valued. Automation & Scripting: Strong skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation). Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible. Security & Compliance: Deep understanding of cloud security principles, regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA), and best practices for securing cloud infrastructure and data. Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, performance tuning, and cost optimization strategies. Networking & Virtualization: Solid grasp of networking concepts, virtual networks, VPNs, SDN, and NFV. DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines. Experience GitHub would be preferred. Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills: Strong troubleshooting abilities, analytical thinking, and a track record of resolving complex technical issues. Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience working across global and diverse teams and collaborating with customers to deliver tailored solutions. Operational Excellence: Experience in ITSM principles including incident, change, and service request management, after-hours support, and maintaining comprehensive documentation for cloud operations. Continuous Improvement: Commitment to identifying and implementing process and toolset enhancements to boost efficiency, reliability, and customer satisfaction Advanced Technical Support: Ability to provide high-level support for complex issues, ensuring minimal disruption to services. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field 7 years in infrastructure management, focusing on multi-cloud environments, including 3 years in the AWS cloud platform. Demonstrated experience leading and managing operations of a global large-scale Infrastructure service. Additional Information Hybrid role (minimum 3 days in the office) located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required). Expected US business hours with team afterhours support needs for evening and weekends. Less than 10% 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. The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy. 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 - $158,400 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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