VMware Platform Operations Engineer

How You’ll Succeed

• Be Bold – You will drive Infrastructure Operations to never have to fix the same problem twice through adoption of AI OPS, Event Driven Automation, and robust Observability.
• Be Fast - You will accelerate initiatives in areas such as: Infrastructure AI OPS automation, cloud IaaS management, and cloud infrastructure as code to enable critical business projects.
• Be Proactive - You will have groundbreaking chances to transform our operations processes using proactive, predictive, and automated AI & Observability capabilities.
• Be Your Best - You will bring a high learning agility and Infrastructure operations / engineer skills to help us enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying tech opportunities, and accelerate our AI OPS journey.

What You Should Bring 

• Technical expertise and leadership to turn ideas and concepts into solutions. Linux, Windows, VMware vSphere, Dell SAN storage or Cloud certifications are a bonus, or we are willing to help you develop. 

• Technical leadership supporting enterprise grade infrastructure solutions and leading the deployment at multiple global locations. 

• Strong Hands-on experience with automated infrastructure availability and resiliency (VMWare/vSphere/Storage replication) at enterprise scale along with virtualized Windows or Linux OS platforms. 

• Knowledge and experience with modern VMware ESX, Azure VMware Service, IaaS cloud services (EC2, Azure Compute), or languages and tools such as Python, JSON, YAML, ARM, Git is a bonus. 

• Optimize, configure, and maintain private cloud infrastructure capabilities to help Build, Configure, and Maintain systems.  

• Consistent track record of high quality, agile focused, team-based solution delivery. 

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, working across global and diverse teams. 

• Deep understanding of networking concepts like VLANs and trunking. Configure and manage VMware networking components, including Distributed Switches (vDS), to ensure efficient and secure network communication. 

• Experience with Zerto and VMware HCX technologies is a plus. 

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Design and Implementation: Lead the design, deployment, and management of VMware environments to support critical business applications.
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering a collaborative work environment. Be able to lead and deliver small/medium scale projects like LCM’s, new Manufacturing sites, new tool implementations etc.,
• Performance Optimization: Ensure the optimal performance, scalability, and reliability of VMware infrastructures. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Troubleshooting and Support: Provide advanced troubleshooting for complex issues and ensure timely resolution to minimize downtime in the Vmware Infrastructure.
• Automation and Scripting: Identify, develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
• Capacity Planning: Conduct capacity planning and performance analysis to ensure the infrastructure can meet future demands.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other teams, including platform,network, storage, and security teams, to ensure seamless integration and operation of systems.
• Incident, Change and Request Management: Lead incident response efforts and perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences. Ensure changes and requests are addressed in a timely fashion by the team.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in existing processes architecture and toolsets and implement enhancements to increase efficiency and reliability.
  • Remote Support: Provide remote support to globally dispersed teams, ensuring consistent and reliable VMware services across all locations.