Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Tech Lead
Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: March 13, 2026
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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 build the cloud
infrastructure that powers how we bring medicines to patients!
Tech@Lilly is looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to serve
as the technical lead within the Medicines Development (Global
Regulatory Affairs (GRA), Global Scientific Communications (GSC)
and Global Statistical Sciences (GSS)) portfolio. This is a
hands-on-keyboard technical leadership role. You will design,
build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that underpins our
statistical computing environments, AI/ML pipelines, regulatory
technology platforms, and data engineering workloads. If you want
to build and own the architecture of mission-critical cloud systems
in a regulated, high-impact environment — and you’re looking for a
role where your technical decisions directly shape how a Fortune
100 company operates — this is it. What You’ll Be Doing As the
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will own the strategy,
architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of our
cloud infrastructure on AWS. You are the technical authority for
infrastructure decisions across our portfolio — from compute and
storage architecture to networking, security, multi-region
replication, and disaster recovery. You will lead the modernization
of on-premises to cloud-native implementations, design
infrastructure for AI/automation workloads, and ensure all systems
meet 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, GxP validation, and enterprise
security requirements. This is not a management role — you will
write Terraform, design Kubernetes configurations, build CI/CD
pipelines, and solve hard infrastructure problems alongside your
team. How You’ll Succeed Owning the cloud architecture for our
technology portfolio — designing and implementing scalable, secure,
cost-efficient infrastructure on AWS that supports statistical
computing, regulatory submissions, AI/ML workloads, and clinical
data pipelines — with a relentless focus on reliability,
performance, and compliance. Building and operating infrastructure
for AI/ML pipelines — designing the compute, storage, and
orchestration layers that support agentic AI workflows, model
training and serving, and integration with enterprise platforms.
Implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and platform automation
— building reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure using
Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK. Designing and maintaining CI/CD
pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
Automating operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system
reliability. Ensuring compliance and security by design —
architecting systems that meet 21 CFR Part 11 audit trail
requirements, GxP validation standards, data integrity controls,
and Lilly cybersecurity policies from day one — not bolted on after
the fact. Leading development teams and serving as the technical
authority and mentor — setting engineering standards, conducting
architecture reviews, guiding technical decisions across the team
and vendor partners, and elevating the cloud engineering capability
of the broader organization. You will be the person the team looks
to when infrastructure decisions get hard. What You Should Bring
Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure — including
EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, S3, FSx, RDS, Lambda, VPC networking, IAM,
CloudWatch, and multi-account/multi-region architectures. You’ve
built and operated production systems at scale, not just completed
certifications. Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise —
Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. You believe infrastructure
should be version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and reproducible.
Production experience with container orchestration
(Kubernetes/EKS), service mesh, container security, and
microservices architecture patterns. Experience designing and
building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and automating
infrastructure operations, monitoring, and incident response.
Experience with data platform infrastructure — Databricks, Spark,
data lake/lakehouse architectures, or high-performance storage
systems. Strong security and compliance mindset — experience
building infrastructure in regulated environments with audit trail
requirements, encryption at rest and in transit, and
identity/access management at scale. Demonstrated technical
leadership — experience setting engineering standards, leading
development teams, mentoring engineers, conducting architecture
reviews, and driving technical quality across a team. You lead by
raising the bar, not by managing a backlog. Proficiency with
AI-assisted development tools and a commitment to using them to
accelerate infrastructure delivery. Strong communication skills
with the ability to explain complex infrastructure decisions to
non-technical stakeholders and collaborate across globally
distributed teams. Your Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or
related technical field 8 or more years of hands-on experience in
cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or site
reliability engineering 3 or more years in a technical lead
capacity, owning architecture decisions and setting engineering
direction for a team or platform This job will require on-site work
in Indianapolis, Indiana following a hybrid model of 3 days onsite
and 2 days remote. 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 $141,000 -
$224,400 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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