HPC Platform Engineer

Role Summary

Be a catalyst for innovation in high performance computing at Lilly—seize the chance to transform and accelerate our HPC future. The HPC Platform Engineer will enable analytical, statistical, and scientific computing capabilities within Lilly’s high performance computing infrastructure, helping accelerate the next era of HPC innovation.

Responsibilities

• You will lead the engineering and operations of design, build, and maintain scalable HPC platforms.
• You will play a crucial role in enabling Lilly’s HPC infrastructure and experiences.
• Collaborate with researchers and scientists to optimize performance and streamline workflows.
• Leverage tooling and automation for orchestration, resource scheduling, data access, and reproducibility.
• Evolve and operate public cloud and on-premises environments with a focus on availability and performance for HPC workloads.
• Define and monitor infrastructure metrics, resource utilization, among others.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
• Required: 5+ years’ experience as an HPC Platform Engineer.
• Required: Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale infrastructure project.
• Preferred: Hands-on experience in HPC platforms, including accelerators (e.g., GPU), HPC schedulers (e.g., Altair Grid Engine, Slurm), Kubernetes platforms, and containers technologies (Docker, Apptainer).
• Preferred: Demonstrated experience with HPC workloads, infrastructure, and cluster architectures.
• Preferred: Expertise with the Linux command line, Linux troubleshooting, and HPC administration.
• Preferred: Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Chef, Ansible, Terraform.
• Preferred: Experience with automating infrastructure and applications.
• Preferred: Strong programming and scripting skills in languages such as Python or Bash.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of HPC platforms and architectures
• Experience with accelerators, schedulers, Kubernetes, and container technologies
• Linux proficiency and HPC administration
• DevOps tooling and automation
• Python or Bash programming/scripting

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related technical field

Additional Requirements

• Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required)
• Travel: less than 5% travel