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 Technology Organization Technology at Lilly builds and maintains capabilities using pioneering technologies like most prominent tech companies What differentiates Technology at Lilly is that we create new possibilities 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 solutions in every area of our business About the Business Function The Software Product Engineering SPE team is a specialised engineering group that delivers strategic solutions and differentiated capabilities We take a forward-thinking approach focusing on an enterprise platform and product mindset ensuring that the solutions we build can be leveraged across Technology teams for broader impact and efficiency Job Title Principal Site Reliability Engineer Role Summary As a Lead SRE Engineer you will drive reliability scalability and operational excellence across a portfolio of applications deployed on a modern internal platform You will lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers establish best practices and collaborate closely with product and development teams to ensure robust automated and self-healing systems Your leadership will be critical in shaping the SRE function and enabling the team to deliver high-impact solutions that support Lilly s mission What You ll Be Doing Lead the SRE team responsible for the reliability and performance of applications deployed on a cloud-native internal platform Design implement and maintain automation frameworks self-service tooling and auto-healing systems to eliminate manual toil Build and enhance end-to-end observability monitoring logging and alerting systems for proactive issue detection and resolution Ensure Uptime Take ultimate ownership of our production environment s stability Lead end-to-end incident management from escalation to Root Cause Analysis RCA Manage patching upgrades and disaster recovery processes Champion Infrastructure as Code IaC and CI CD best practices to ensure consistent repeatable and secure deployments Collaborate with development and product teams to embed reliability and scalability into application design and architecture Continuously evaluate and introduce emerging tools and technologies to keep the SRE stack modern and efficient Mentor and guide SRE engineers fostering a culture of ownership innovation and continuous improvement Implement AIOps frameworks to improve operational tasks and enhance system self-healing capabilities Participate in and optimise the on-call rotation striving to minimise human intervention through automation Drive capacity planning disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives Support onboarding documentation and knowledge sharing for platform services and operational best practices How You Will Succeed Demonstrate technical leadership and strategic thinking in SRE practices Proactively identify and resolve reliability risks and bottlenecks Foster solid cross-functional relationships with engineering product and operations teams Lead by example in incident management troubleshooting and performance optimisation Promote a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous learning Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders What You Should Bring Proven experience leading SRE or DevOps teams in a complex cloud-native environment Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform AWS Azure or GCP Advanced knowledge of Linux Unix systems networking and distributed systems Proficiency in programming scripting Python Go or similar Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration Docker Kubernetes at scale Strong background in CI CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code Terraform Ansible Helm etc Expertise with observability platforms Prometheus Grafana ELK Datadog Splunk Experience with SRE practices SLIs SLOs error budgets blameless postmortems Excellent problem-solving debugging and performance optimisation skills Experience with security engineering IAM secrets management and vulnerability scanning is a plus Exposure to cloud cost optimisation strategies is desirable Experience mentoring and developing engineers Basic Qualifications and Experience Requirement Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field 8 years of hands-on experience in SRE DevOps or related roles with at least 2 years in a technical leadership capacity Demonstrated success in managing reliability for large-scale distributed systems Relevant certifications e g AWS Certified DevOps Engineer CKA etc are a plus Additional Skills Preferences Experience with AI ML in operations AIOps for anomaly detection predictive scaling or automated incident triage Contribution to open-source projects or thought leadership in SRE DevOps communities Knowledge of Agile principles and frameworks e g Scrum SAFe including related tools such as Jira Excellent analytical problem-solving and investigative skills Strong communication and collaboration skills Additional Information Availability to work flexible work hours is may be required This team will support continuous operations across two shifts and therefore this role will require non-standard work hours and some work on weekends and holidays Appropriate adjustments in benefits will be provided for employees working non-standard hours where applicable 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 WeAreLilly

📌 Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Telangana)
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