Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Position Overview

Become part of the team responsible for developing the core infrastructure that drives Autodesk's cloud services. You will be working on CloudOS, our cutting-edge Continuous Deployment (CD) platform, which is widely utilized by our internal cloud engineering teams. As a crucial element of the Platform Services and Emerging Technologies team, CloudOS streamlines and standardises the provisioning and management of front-end, back-end, and infrastructure components across multiple global regions. CloudOS harnesses the power and flexibility of industry-standard open-source tools, enabling the rapid delivery of new platform capabilities while benefiting from the contributions of the global developer community. This modern approach allows for increased agility and the replacement of outdated, less flexible internal deployment systems.

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our CloudOS team. As a Principal SRE, you will be a strategic leader and a technical authority in developing, operating, and evolving CloudOS platform. You will help in streamlining and standardising the provisioning and management of front-end, back-end, and infrastructure components across multiple global regions. You will collaborate closely with internal engineering teams to understand their deployment needs, enhance the platform’s functionality, ensure its reliability, and promote its adoption across Autodesk. If you are enthusiastic about building resilient developer platforms, automating complex workflows, and working on public cloud services using containers like ECS and EKS at scale, this position is ideal for you. While we primarily utilise AWS, we also have workloads on Azure and GCP.

This is a hybrid role which requires few days per week working from Bengaluru office.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, deployment, testing, maintenance, and enhancement of features and functionality within the CloudOS platform.
• Define the architectural roadmap and future vision for the CloudOS platform, ensuring alignment with Autodesk's business goals.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve the platform's reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Oversee and manage the infrastructure supporting CloudOS, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization using technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Develop and enforce policies, standards, and procedures for cloud infrastructure management.
• Configure, manage, and upgrade Jenkins and Spinnaker; contribute to upstream improvements or develop custom extensions as needed
• Lead the development of complex automation scripts for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks using languages such as Python, Go, or Java and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams to understand their CI/CD needs, provide proactive support, troubleshoot complex issues, and promote best practices for utilizing CloudOSImplement, manage, and optimize monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of the CloudOS platform.
• Lead initiatives to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal system performance.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, runbooks, and facilitate knowledge transfer within the team and among platform users
• Stay informed with the latest industry trends and advancements in CI/CD, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Oversee the on-call rotation to provide incident response and support for the CloudOS platform, ensuring timely resolution of issues and continuous improvement from incident learnings.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 8 + years in a Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related role
• Extensive understanding of CI/CD principles and hands-on experience with relevant tools (e.g., Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Argo Workflows)
• Experience working with major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in scripting and/or programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, ELK Stack).
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving skills, and a strategic mindset.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct, hands-on experience managing, configuring, or extending CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience contributing to open-source projects, particularly related to cloud-native or CI/CD tooling
• Strong AWS expertise
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes operations and management
• Experience building and supporting internal developer platforms or tools.
• Familiarity with multi-region cloud application architectures and deployment strategies
• Experience with GitOps workflows

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