Job Requisition ID #

24WD83739

Position Overview 

Autodesk is looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Principal Engineer to join the Autodesk Platform Services Team. The team delivers high-value, exabyte-scale data streaming platform powering desktop, mobile, and web products. This enables our product teams to build cohesive in-product data experiences, our partners to integrate, search and expand granular data across all Autodesk products.

You will report to the Senior Manager - Software Development based in Dublin, Ireland.  You will be part of the team who creates amazing things and will learn from some of the best in the industry! Our team enables real-time data-centric experiences at scale to make a difference for all of those who imagine, design, and make our world. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of and to help evolve developing the engineering discipline in an Agile environment and to contribute to an organization committed to continuous improvement.

This team operate in a hybrid working model from our office in Dublin.

Responsibilities 

You will lead all aspects of DevOps, CI/CD, Observability, Alerting and Reliability; working to create and maintain most reliable, secure, scalable and highly resilient data streaming platformYou will lead team level DevOps and SRE outcomes and initiativesConfigure, improve cloud infrastructure for service availability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency with increasing load over timeBe accountable for SLOs of the services by driving and improving the process including service reviews, fire drills and HA assessmentCreate innovative solutions to monitor health checks of data streaming appsKeep system updated in time for security complianceEngage in technical discussions and technical decision-makingBuild tools to improve operation efficiencyServe as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of our data streaming platform across AutodeskExhibit steadfast leadership and makes substantial contributions to large-scale, intricate projects that frequently entail collaboration among multiple engineers and cross-functional teamsDrive the design, implementation, and management for expanding observability infrastructure, keeping up to date with new technologiesCome up with innovative solutions for resilient data streaming platform at scaleYou will collaborate with software architects, product managers, and software developers to iteratively transform high-level SRE, DevOps requirements into enhancements that are delivered incrementallyExhibits ownership of domain/large-scale platforms encompassing end-to-end responsibilities from Engineering Practices, Solutions, Quality, and Deployment to Support.Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunitiesAutomate deployment, scaling, and management of infrastructure using modern DevOps tools and practicesMonitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutionsImplement and maintain configuration management and infrastructure as code (IaC) using TerraformDefine and document best practices across all pillars of DevOps/SRE

Minimum Qualifications 

BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field or relevant experience9+ years of software engineering experience with proven experience in DevOps and SRE accountable for SLOsHands-on experience working with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Demonstrate senior-level experience with development and deployment of AWS services, specifically S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, and databases (Aurora, DynamoDB).Understand and curiosity of SRE best practices, architectures, and methods.Experience in Continuous Delivery, deployment with Terraform.Excellent experience in Java, python, groovy and other programming languages. Good knowledge on resiliency patterns and cloud security.Proficiency in using observability tools such as Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus.Experience with security compliance, such as SOC2.Hands-on experience with data streaming, transformation, and ETL technologies. Understanding of Apache Flink, Kinesis, Kafka and Kubernetes. Demonstrate experience of managing clusters of Kubernetes, Mesos etc. Proven capability to lead incident response, drive root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.Expertise in DevOps / SRE practices, including IaC, configuration management, container technologies, microservices, CI/CD processes, etc.Strong problem-solving skills and capability to work on complex systemsExperience in working in an Agile environment​.Experience in working with distributed team.

Preferred Qualifications

Passion to run and improve the customer facing systems with high degree of availability (four 9’s)Experience with Databases and database design principles at cloud scaleDemonstrated experience leading complex, large-scale cloud and data streaming projects involving multiple teams/functionsPassionate about building and motivating engineering teams, experience with driving organizational strategic initiativesExcellent verbal and written communication skills with experience collaborating in a dispersed multicultural team to deliver projects, sometimes responsible for leading initiativesA perpetual learner and often find yourself ideating about new and improved ways of doing things and are confident to share your ideas with the rest of the engineering team.Demonstrates mature judgment when making engineering decisions, and can reliably make the call between elegant and practical solutions

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