Senior Principal Application Support Engineer & Shift Lead – Operations

Lilly

Not specified; not specified; benefits adjusted fo...
10-14+ years application support experience
Incident command and major incident response
Root cause analysis and problem management
This role serves as the senior-most operational authority responsible for the health, stability, and operability of production systems within a global healthcare leader

Job Summary

  • This role serves as the senior-most operational authority responsible for the health, stability, and operability of production systems within a global healthcare leader.
  • The incumbent will lead end-to-end support operations, act as incident commander for high-impact outages, and drive reliability strategy aligned with SRE principles.
  • Success in this position requires influencing engineering teams to prevent incidents, reducing manual toil through automation, and mentoring junior engineers to build deep operational expertise.

Matching Summary

This role serves as the senior-most operational authority responsible for the health, stability, and operability of production systems within a global healthcare leader.

Salary

Not specified; Not specified; Benefits adjusted for non-standard hours where applicable

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 10-14+ years application support experience
  • Incident command and major incident response
  • Root cause analysis and problem management
  • Monitoring platforms like Datadog Splunk ELK
  • Python Bash scripting for automation

Nice-to-have

  • Experience operationalizing SLIs SLOs error budgets
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines
  • Leading globally distributed support teams
  • Influencing enterprise-wide operational standards

Key Requirements

  • 10-14+ years of experience in Application Support or SRE
  • Deep hands-on troubleshooting across distributed applications and cloud platforms
  • Proven ability to operate in regulated and enterprise environments

Work Rights

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