Senior Platform Engineer

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 process 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.

In the organisation we have recently stood up AI capabilities and looking for an engineer with interest in this area. 

 

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: 

 

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 o...