Site Reliability 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.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling reliable, automated, and self-healing infrastructure and applications. This role requires someone who is not only strong in system operations but also in engineering mindset, coding, and automation enabling us to move faster while maintaining system resilience and performance.

You will work closely with product and development teams, but you won’t just “take tickets and complete requests.” Instead, you will challenge, automate, and optimize ensuring that systems are robust, scalable, and efficient with minimal manual intervention.

What You’ll Do

• Automation First: Identify repetitive manual work and design automation frameworks, self-service tooling, and auto-healing systems.
• Observability & Monitoring: Build end-to-end monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure visibility and proactive issue resolution.
• Incident Response: Lead complex incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and drive blameless postmortems.
• CI/CD & Infrastructure: Enhance CI/CD pipelines and use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision, configure, and manage cloud resources.
• Collaboration: Partner with dev teams to embed reliability into design and development not just after deployment.
• Innovation: Continuously evaluate emerging tools and technologies, keeping the stack modern and efficient.
• Participate in on-call rotation and improve processes to minimize human intervention.

What We’re Looking For

• 6–9 years of hands-on experience as an SRE Engineer.
• Strong expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, networking, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting (Python, Go, or similar).

* Advanced skills with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes at scale). * Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.).

• Expertise with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk).
• Strong background in incident management, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems).
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and performance optimization skills.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML in operations (AIOps) for anomaly detection, predictive scaling, or automated incident triage.
• Hands-on with security engineering - IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning.
• Exposure to FinOps / cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Contribution to open-source projects or thought leadership in SRE/DevOps communities.

Soft Skills

• Ownership mindset - drives initiatives, not just tasks.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with dev/product leadership.
• Strategic thinking with ability to balance speed, reliability, and cost.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers on SRE best practices.

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