Autodesk Access - Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About the position

Autodesk is looking for a talented Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing Access team leading the User Management and Administration capabilities supporting all Autodesk customers! As a Principal SRE you will be building, supporting and improving the cloud infrastructure that powers our services. The User Management & Access services are part of business-critical systems that must be highly robust and your role centers around ensuring the utmost reliability, availability, and performance of these systems.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, building and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure on AWS to support millions of daily users
• Supporting our production systems and ensuring operational aspects are taken into account in the day-to-day engineering work
• Automating processes to improve system reliability and introducing best practices in continuous integration and deployment
• Leading efforts in monitoring, alerting, operational visibility, and driving significant efficiency improvements
• Building tools and frameworks for incident response and resolution while ensuring system compliance with the highest security standards
• Work to reduce manual processes through automation to make the teams around you more efficient and productive
• Collaborate inside and outside the team. You enjoy working closely with others - learning and helping others by sharing expertise and encouraging best practices and high technical standards

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a similar field
• A strong background in fostering a culture of continuous delivery, automation and agile development
• Extensive experience and expertise working in production with AWS cloud services and infrastructure concepts
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and secrets management (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform, Vault)
• Extensive experience with CI/CD practices, container deployment and orchestration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Docker)
• Experience with building observability into services and infrastructure (e.g. CloudWatch, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace)
• Experience with Load Balancing platforms and solid understanding of networking stack, routing protocols and firewall concepts
• Familiarity with managing artifact repositories for source code, rpm and docker images (e.g. Git, Artifactory)
• Understanding of common authentication/authorization methodologies and protocols
• Strong communication and collaboration skills - you are pragmatic and know how to build trust
• Interest in working with geographically diverse teams - we have peers in Canada, South America and Asia

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• Time away and everyday wellness
• Annual cash bonuses
• Stock grants
• Comprehensive benefits package