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.

Lilly's Purpose

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 35,000 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 bring to life technologies to lead in Pharma-tech!

The Enterprise Data Platforms enable the platform has developed an integrated and intuitive databases, integration and analytics platform. This platform enables Lilly business functions enables quickly utilize the database services, integration services and analytics platform.

What you will be doing:

Reporting to the Director and

as Associate Director-

Database Reliability Engineering

will lead the

operations, reliability, and performance engineering

of on-premises and cloud database platforms supporting the

Enterprise Data Platform

. This leadership role focuses on

scalability, automation, reliability, and operational excellence

, enabling seamless support for mission-critical data services across analytical, transactional, and integration workloads.


The role requires a

blend of deep database

expertise

, SRE principles, and operational leadership

to drive stability, resiliency, and continuous improvement for hybrid enterprise-scale environments.

How you will succeed:

Define and execute the

database operations and reliability strategy

, balancing performance, availability, and cost efficiency across

on-prem and cloud ecosystems

(AWS, Azure, GCP).


Establish and mature the

DB

RE model

for database platforms, embedding reliability, observability, and automation in daily operations.


Partner with architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align operations with

enterprise data and digital transformation goals

.

How you will succeed:

Define and execute the

database operations and reliability strategy

, balancing performance, availability, and cost efficiency across

on-prem and cloud ecosystems

(AWS, Azure, GCP).


Establish and mature the

DB

RE model

for database platforms, embedding reliability, observability, and automation in daily operations.


Partner with architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align operations with

enterprise data and digital transformation goals

.

T

eam Leadership & Collaboration

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of

Database Administrators, RE engineers, and platform specialists

supporting global environments.


Foster a

DevOps and SRE culture

, driving collaboration between

data engineering, analytics, application, and infrastructure teams

.


Create

operational playbooks

,

runbooks

and

implementing Agentic

AI on the

DB Ops

and

Observability

to standardize and streamline incident response and recovery processes.


Operations & Platform Management


Oversee

day-to-day operations

of enterprise databases including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native services like RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Azure SQL.


Drive

automation-first operations

leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Ansible and self-healing mechanisms.


Implement robust

disaster recovery, failover, and capacity management

processes to ensure high platform availability.


Lead

performance engineering

efforts, including capacity planning, tuning, and cost optimization.

SRE & Reliability Engineering

Build and maintain

observability frameworks

with metrics, logging, and tracing for proactive monitoring and alerting.


Define and manage

Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

for database services.


Establish

incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis (RCA)

processes to improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).


Champion a

blameless post-mortem culture

and drive continuous reliability improvements.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

1

4

+ years of experience

in enterprise database operations, with at least

5+ years in leadership roles

managing hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Proven experience building and scaling

SRE practices for data platforms

in regulated, enterprise-scale environments.
Technical Skills

Expertise in

relational and NoSQL database platforms

(Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Graph DB, Mongo DB, Vector DB). Hands-on experience with

cloud-native database services

(AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB; Azure SQL; GCP BigQuery). Proficiency in

automation tools

(Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines. Strong understanding of

observability tools

(Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, or equivalent). Knowledge of

high-availability architectures, replication, sharding, and database performance tuning

. Familiarity with

security frameworks

and

compliance requirements

in regulated industries.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Uptime and reliability of database services. Reduction in Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). Automation coverage and reduction in manual operations. Cost efficiency and capacity utilization metrics. Compliance audit success rates and zero security incidents.
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.


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