Director - Engineering Operations

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!

Your Role:

As lead for Engineering Operations, you will be responsible for driving our promise to deliver and maintain secure, reliable and efficient solutions. Your role will be pivotal in transforming our current operational approaches to suit a modern-day Engineering organization, embracing the concepts of DevSecOps. 

In partnership with Engineering and Product Management, you will define and implement a holistic operational strategy that promotes consistency across product teams.

This includes the required foundational tool chain, with an emphasis on the automation of common operational tasks (detection, remediation, etc.)

Finally, you will manage key service providers and external partners, ensuring their teams are a natural extension of Engineering, with standardized processes that prioritize flexibility and scale.

Your Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership


* Deliver an ambitious vision for a modern approach to application (custom and SaaS) and data operations.  Moving from reactive to proactive and self-healing. 


* Seek input across IT and Business product teams taking operational goals and translating them into visions and strategies that drive to a modern operations approach.


* Champion the move to DevSecOps and SRE fostering a culture of collaboration, automation and continuous improvement between development and operations teams.


* Embed modernization and lifecycle management into product teams monitoring adherence to reduction in tech debt.

Application & Data support services


* Own our relationship with third parties focusing on stabilization of our operational estate.


* Continually review our approaches to running applications and modernize in line with organizational direction with a view to scalability, skillset and cost.


* Work with product teams to adopt incident management processes defined by TechOps and ensure we do this consistently.


* Define foundational service principles ensuring Engineering Product Teams are providing the right capabilities to scale that can be consumed by bus...