Site Reliability Engineer

An exciting new opportunity has opened for a Site Reliability Engineer within the Autodesk PDMS Platform SRE team. The successful candidate will wear multiple hats: first responder, performance analyst, system architect, capacity planner, and monitoring expert. Good technical and communication skills are required for you to be successful in this role. A passion for learning new technologies and a desire to solve problems you come across are the keys to being successful in this role. In accordance with U.S. government contracting and ITAR compliance obligations, this role requires U.S. citizenship or U.S. lawful permanent residency. Employment is contingent upon meeting all applicable government security and eligibility requirements.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement hosting solutions for highly dynamic SaaS web applications, ensuring reliability and performance at scale

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions to support scalable, reliable, and secure global environments

• Ensure efficient and well-documented standards, processes, and best practices

• Implement security and compliance with best practices across infrastructure and applications, including hardening, enforcing least privileges

• Use modern administration tools like Docker, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation/CDK to manage and deploy containers and virtual machines

• Collaborate with development, testing, and documentation teams during the product development cycle to ensure quality control

• Automate processes and integrate new technologies as needed

• Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and manage error budgets to ensure reliability goals are met

• Work with stakeholders to align technical strategy with business requirements

• Participate in on-call support and incident management, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication

• Conduct post-incident blameless postmortems to identify root causes and drive continuous improvement

• Self-starter mindset with a strong drive to learn and own initiatives to promote a culture of continuous improvement, and excellence

• 5+ years DevOps/SRE experience with cloud-based applications

• Advanced hands-on experience Linux administration skills, including monitoring, troubleshooting, reliability and security

• Must have U.S. citizenship or have U.S. lawful permanent residency. Employment is contingent upon meeting all applicable government security and eligibility requirements

• Experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• Strong scripting abilities (eg. Bash, Python, Perl, etc.)

• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ELB, S3, IAM, VPC, Dynamo DB, RDS, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and container technologies

• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Experience with CI/CD tools. (Jenkins, Artifactory, GIT, etc)

• Skilled in log analysis and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana)

• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL), and SQL

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools & practices is preferred

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $117,000 and $209,330. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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