Principal Platform Engineer - Research Data Platform

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.  About Lilly   At Lilly, everything we do starts with patients. We unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our global team of over 50,000 employees work with urgency and purpose to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. We bring our best to this work because people depend on it. If you're driven by purpose and determined to make a meaningful difference for patients, we invite you to bring your skill and your commitment to Lilly.    About Technology@Lilly  At Lilly, technology is not a support function. It is how a global medicine company operates, innovates, and delivers. Lilly in Bengaluru builds the capabilities that make this possible, cloud platforms, AI systems, and automation at enterprise scale, all in service of a purpose that makes this technology work genuinely distinctive, from advancing drug discovery to enabling connected clinical trials to keeping a global medicine company running at the standard patients deserve.    About the Business Function   The Software Product Engineering (SPE) team is a specialized engineering group that delivers strategic solutions and differentiated capabilities. We take a forward-thinking approach, focusing on an enterprise platform and product mindset, ensuring that the solutions we build can be leveraged across Technology teams for broader impact and efficiency.      What You'll Do  DevOps and Infrastructure  Own and evolve the platform's delivery and runtime foundations across CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes/EKS, and AWS services - ensuring platform components can be built, deployed, scaled, and rolled back safely.    Design and maintain reliable deployment workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, container registries, environment promotion strategies, and automated validation gates for application and data-platform services.    Strengthen operational excellence through observability, logging, metrics, alerting, runbooks, and incident-response practices that improve service reliability, recoverability, and mean time to resolution.    AI, Agents and MCP Tooling   Design and build AI agents and intelligent automation tools that help research scientists and data…