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Come help us unlock the power of the Infrastructure Operations through AI & Automation!
The Cloud and Connectivity organization is actively looking for a Linux 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 are seeking a Linux & OpenShift Platform Operations Engineer with experience supporting and managing enterprise Linux and OpenShift environments. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in maintaining system stability, automating operational tasks, and ensuring high availability for mission-critical workloads, including leveraging modern AI-driven automation tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to improve efficiency and streamline engineering workflows. This position requires in-depth technical expertise, being a team player, and a proactive approach to problem-solving and operational excellence.
This role will have the opportunity to work with the latest Public and Private cloud IaaS services. Our goal is to improve all aspects of our infrastructure availability and reliability through repeatable patterns, new architectural designs, and improvements in observability to prevent outages and increase value across the organization, including the adoption of AI-powered automation and operational tooling. The role will partner with our global Lilly operations SMEs and connect with other platform infrastructure operations SMEs to deliver the daily operations associated with this area.
How You'll Succeed:
What You Should Bring:
Manage and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
Handle VMware Vsphere, Linux-based VMs, and physical server management (HP, DELL, IBM). Configure and maintain Linux network services (DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls, TCP/IP). Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into operation solutions. Linux, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop.
Develop and manage Ansible playbooks for automation of system configurations and deployments. Write Bash/Python scripts for system management and automation.
Utilize Ansible Tower/AWX for centralized automation. Leverage AI-driven automation tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to enhance scripting efficiency, accelerate development, and streamline operational workflows.
Follow ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management processes using ServiceNow.
Manage incident resolution and root cause analysis for critical server issues.
Oversee change management processes, ensuring minimal impact to production environments.
Additional Information:
Your Basic requirements:
Additional Skills/Preferences:
Additional Information:
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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.
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