Senior Principal Engineer - Kubernetes
Eli Lilly and Company (company site, opens in a new tab)9+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–55 LPA
Posted 12h ago
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About This Role
- Own the end-to-end design, build and operation of Lilly’s Kubernetes hosting platform across multiple clouds, including cluster lifecycle, networking, scaling and upgrades.
- Develop platform controllers and automation; evolve infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and GitOps capabilities, with accountability for platform reliability and security.
- Lead a small platform engineering team and drive delivery, application onboarding and migration support, code reviews, and platform incident response.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: 9+ years in Platform or DevOps engineering, including running Kubernetes in production.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on production experience with a managed Kubernetes platform (EKS, AKS, ROSA or ARO), Kubernetes networking and Istio; strong Go experience building Kubernetes controllers or operators.
- Technical leadership or mentoring experience, plus hands-on Terraform, CI/CD or GitOps, and working knowledge of AWS and/or Azure services, networking and IAM.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- A senior hands-on engineer who can set platform architecture and standards while mentoring a small team and keeping roadmap delivery predictable.
- Deep production expertise across Kubernetes networking, Go-based platform tooling, Istio, cloud infrastructure and GitOps, with experience troubleshooting complex platform issues.
- Experience with Kubernetes-based infrastructure tooling, security and policy controls, observability, multi-cluster operations, or regulated sectors such as healthcare or life sciences would strengthen fit.