Principal Engineer – DevOps Lead - EKS

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 a Principal Engineer, you will be a key member of our software engineering team, driving the modernization of Elanco Knowledge Solutions (EKS).

You will partner with product managers, architects, and platform teams to design and deliver modern, scalable, and secure digital products that enable data-driven insights and improve customer outcomes across the animal health ecosystem.
 

Your Responsibilities:


* Develop full-stack solutions, building scalable distributed systems that support business growth and positive user experiences.


* Implement and support modern digital products, ensuring compliance, security, and stability.


* Partner with product managers to shape backlogs, size initiatives, and design engineering approaches.


* Collaborate with Platform Engineering to influence product direction and improve developer efficiency.


* Contribute to Elanco’s engineering community by sharing best practices and coaching peers.
 

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):


* Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology.


* Experience: 10–15 years of engineering experience, including 8 years of technical leadership.


* Skills: Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical topics; demonstrated stakeholder engagement and vendor management experience.
 

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (preferred qualifications):


* 5–10 years working with modern application architecture methodologies (SOA, API-centric, 12-Factor, FAIR).


* 5+ years designing cloud-native solutions (Azure or Google Cloud preferred).


* 5+ years delivering digital solutions using product-mindset and Agile/iterative methods.


* Proven hands-on software engineering expertise with modern web technologies (TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, React/Next.js).


* Experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, TDD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.


* Knowledge of modern data practices (Databricks, ML models, Lakehouse architectures).
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