{"id":1174232,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cencora-principal-administrator-systems-management","title":"Principal Administrator, Systems Management","company":{"id":1040788,"name":"Cencora","domain":"cencora.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cencora","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Vilnius, Lithuania"],"countries":["LT"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":82576,"max":117966,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":true,"usd_annual":134166},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"Bicep","optional":false},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Self-Healing","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"TCP/IP","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":true},{"name":"VMWare","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-12T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-12","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T19:06:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":44,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":44},"description":"Cencora, previously known as AmerisourceBergen, is a leading global pharmaceutical solutions organization centered on improving lives. Ranked #21 on the Global Fortune 500, our team members are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures.\nOur Shared Service Center in Lithuania is experiencing rapid growth and we have many diverse and exciting roles in Customer Service, Operations, IT, Finance and HR. Join us and make a positive impact on human and animal health.\nJob Details\nWe are seeking a Principal Administrator to join our IT Operations team, specializing in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). This senior individual contributor role sits at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and emerging AI technologies. You will drive the reliability, performance, and scalability of Cencora's critical systems while championing the adoption of AI-powered tooling to elevate the operational maturity of the organization.\nThis is a highly influential position - you will set technical direction, shape engineering standards, and serve as a force multiplier for the broader IT Operations function.\nKey Responsibilities:\nSite Reliability Engineering\nOwn and drive the reliability, availability, and performance of critical production systems, defining and enforcing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services.\n\nLead incident response efforts - serving as the escalation point for major outages, conducting thorough post-incident reviews, and driving systemic improvements from blameless retrospectives.\n\nDesign and implement advanced observability strategies, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics-driven alerting using modern observability platforms.\n\nChampion toil reduction by systematically identifying manual operational work and replacing it with automation and self-healing systems.\n\nDevelop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and disaster recovery procedures that are clear, tested, and actionable.\n\nAI Tooling & Innovation\nLead the evaluation, integration, and operationalization of AI-powered tooling, with a strong focus on platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, and related MLOps frameworks.\n\nArchitect and maintain AI/ML infrastructure pipelines, including model deployment, inference endpoints, monitoring, and feedback loops for production AI systems.\n\nDrive the adoption of AI-assisted operations - including intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, predictive capacity planning, and LLM-based automation workflows.\n\nCollaborate with product and data science teams to translate AI capabilities into reliable, production-grade services with appropriate guardrails and governance.\n\nStay at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and proactively identify opportunities to apply new capabilities to operational challenges.\n\nNetwork Technologies\nApply a deep understanding of networking principles - including TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, load balancing, CDN, SD-WAN, and zero-trust network architecture - to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues.\n\nPartner with network engineering teams to ensure resilient, low-latency connectivity for distributed and cloud-native services.\n\nDesign and validate network observability practices, including flow analysis, packet capture, and performance baselining across hybrid cloud environments.\n\nContribute to network security posture through familiarity with firewalls, WAFs, DDoS mitigation, and private connectivity patterns (e.g., Azure Private Link, ExpressRoute).\n\nSoftware Engineering\nWrite production-quality code and automation in one or more languages (Python, Go, PowerShell, or equivalent) to build internal tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and automation frameworks.\n\nApply software engineering best practices - including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, code review, testing, and documentation - to all operational work.\n\nContribute to and govern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, Bicep, or similar tooling across cloud environments (primarily Azure).\n\nDesign and develop APIs and microservices that enhance operational capabilities, integrating with monitoring, ticketing, and AI platforms.\n\nLeadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration\nServe as a technical authority and mentor, guiding engineers across IT Operations on SRE principles, architectural decisions, and engineering excellence.\n\nInfluence product roadmaps by advocating for reliability and operability as first-class design requirements.\n\nEngage with senior stakeholders and leadership to communicate risk, reliability posture, and strategic improvements in clear, business-relevant terms.\n\nDrive alignment across infrastructure, security, application, and AI teams to ensure cohesive and well-integrated operational practices.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of experience in IT Operations, infrastructure engineering, or software engineering, with at least 3 years in a dedicated SRE or platform engineering role.\nDemonstrable expertise with cloud platforms - particularly Microsoft Azure - including compute, networking, storage, and managed services.\nHands-on experience with AI/ML platforms and tooling, including Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, OpenAI APIs, or equivalent.\nStrong proficiency in networking technologies - TCP/IP stack, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing, VPN, SD-WAN, and cloud networking constructs.\nProficiency in at least two programming or scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) with a portfolio of production-quality automation or tooling.\nDeep experience with observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.\nHands-on expertise with IaC tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) and modern CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).\nProven track record in SRE practices - SLO/SLI definition, error budgets, chaos engineering, and toil elimination.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience deploying and operating LLM-based workflows or agents in production environments.\nFamiliarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization in large-scale environments.\nKnowledge of healthcare, pharmaceutical, or regulated industry compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, GxP).\nExperience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.\nRelevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Google SRE, or equivalent.\n\nAdditional Job Description\nBachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.\nMaster's degree in computer science, information technology, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.\n8+ years of experience in it operations, enterprise systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, or a related field required.\nAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX), or equivalent certification preferred.\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of experience in IT Operations, infrastructure engineering, or software engineering, with at least 3 years in a dedicated SRE or platform engineering role.\n\nDemonstrable expertise with cloud platforms - particularly Microsoft Azure - including compute, networking, storage, and managed services.\n\nHands-on experience with AI/ML platforms and tooling, including Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, OpenAI APIs, or equivalent.\n\nStrong proficiency in networking technologies - TCP/IP stack, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing, VPN, SD-WAN, and cloud networking constructs.\n\nProficiency in at least two programming or scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) with a portfolio of production-quality automation or tooling.\n\nDeep experience with observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.\n\nHands-on expertise with IaC tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) and modern CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).\n\nProven track record in SRE practices - SLO/SLI definition, error budgets, chaos engineering, and toil elimination.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience deploying and operating LLM-based workflows or agents in production environments.\n\nFamiliarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization in large-scale environments.\n\nKnowledge of healthcare, pharmaceutical, or regulated industry compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, GxP).\n\nExperience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.\n\nRelevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Google SRE, or equivalent.\n\nSalary (annual gross): 82,576- 117,966EUR\nWhat Cencora offers\nWe offer a competitive annual bonus, life insurance from Day 1, a best-in-class health insurance package, and up to 6 fully paid benefit days a year. As a Cencora employee, you have the benefit of our referral bonus scheme, our boundless learning opportunities and our global Employee Assistance Program. We have a wonderful office location in Quadrum, equipped with everything you need for a small break at work and fresh snacks at all times. 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