Senior Platform Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Hart; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals! As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise. At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights. Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Software Engineering and Platforms - Job Description

Location: UK - Hook (Hybrid)
Team: Software Engineering & Platforms
Supervisor: IT Engineering Director

Position Description: Over the past 4 years Elanco IT has been on an incredibly exciting journey. Separating from our parent company and standing up on our own gave us a once in a lifetime opportunity to build a modern technology stack free of the burden of large-scale technical debt. We are now looking to take this one step further, leveraging newly established engineering capabilities to help Elanco deliver on customer needs faster than ever before. This role is part of our new enterprise platform engineering team focused on driving secure, reliable, efficient practice across our business and IT teams. This role will engage in the build, and iteration of our advanced cloud automation patterns, as well as developing solutions to automate manual processes across business and IT. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to not only work with the latest toolsets but to contribute to the continued growth of a new highly skilled engineering organisation. The role is great for the AI passionate who would like to explore further the possibilities AI world has opened. To be successful in an engineering role in Elanco requires a highly motivated individual, with an innovative mindset and a willingness to drive tangible outcomes. The individual must be able to articulate complex technical topics, collaborate with external partners and ensure quality delivery of the required solution.

Responsibilities:

1. Engineering

• Work with Principal Platform Engineer to help drive direction of platform and automation capabilities.
• Work with a diverse team on some of Elanco’s most exciting engineering initiatives helping drive secure, reliable, and efficient using the latest technology.
• Look for continuous improvement opportunities in our core ecosystem identifying new ways to enhance application team and developer experience.
• Bring your expertise into a team of talented engineers and continually help shape where the team can help to better enable our secure, reliable, efficient vision.
• Follow the value mentality with opportunity to work across the engineering team helping to ‘walk in the shoes’ of application teams as well as operational engineering teams.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to less senior team members to cultivate development and continuous growth within the team.

Daily / Monthly Responsibilities

1. Build and run responsibilities for Platform Engineering team ensuring robust support folding into standard incident processes as the products mature.
2. Hands on code, build, govern and maintain.
3. Working as part of a scrum team, deliver high quality technical deliverables.
4. Designing and building solutions to support the automation of manual IT and business processes.
5. Continually modernise software development processes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) techniques to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery.
6. Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), helping to support the adoption of automation capabilities.
7. Establish a strong partnership with our application health program and Information Security, helping to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.
8. Coach and mentor junior engineers, members of our student program to help build a strong connected organisation.
9. Supporting application teams, internal and external, helping to resolve barriers related to building, deployment, and utilisation of engineering products.
10. Providing sound solutions for complex issues.

Basic Qualifications:

Must Have:

• Proven Experience in Delivering Software Products.
• Proven experience in programming languages such as Typescript, along with a strong background in either Python/Typescript.
• Willingness to learn, AI/ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch (prior in-depth experience is not necessary).
• A passion for AI and the eagerness to stay current with the latest AI research, trends, and technologies.
• Operational experience ensuring internal products are well-maintained, supported, and iterated upon.
• Experience working within a DevOps team and familiarity with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, TDD, and SDLC.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members to encourage the adoption of new software versions or products.
• Familiarity with working within an agile team.
• Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.
• Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third parties.
• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with AI and machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.).
• Experience deploying AI solutions in real-world applications.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, Google Cloud) and AI tools.
• Hands-on technical experience with core technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
• Knowledge of cloud cognitive services (e.g., Azure Cloud Vision, Google Vision AI).
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols/patterns.
• Experience supporting digital platforms, including integrations, release management, regression testing, integrations, and data obfuscation.

Other Information:

Occasional travel may be required. Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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