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Job Requisition ID #

25WD89928

Position Overview

Want to help make a better world? As a Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Autodesk, you can do just that. How is this possible? As a member of the team responsible for operating critical customer facing services. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and drive improvements in the operation of mission critical components that make up and are dependencies of hundreds of Autodesk desktop, mobile and web applications. These services are key business enablers serving millions of customers every day. The responsibilities of this role are part of the foundation for attaining and maintaining our customers’ trust to build their business around Autodesk’s commercial offerings.

As a Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will serve as a primary point responsible for building the SRE practice that is focused on the overall health, availability, performance, and capacity of one or more of our production services. In addition, you will be responsible for building and operating our “GameDay” practices that will ensure our systems operate as designed and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. The role will also partner with development teams through the various stages of development to ensure systems are designed with both function and scaled operations in mind. The ideal candidate will be passionate about operations and with an “Automation first” mindset to drive scale.

Responsibilities

+ Build, maintain the site reliability practice which includes the mentorship of SREs in the organization

+ Scale and enhance our GameDay practice by growing the scope and complexity of a critical program to validate and improve our reliability and customer trust

+ Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our services

+ Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind

+ Gain deep knowledge of both our complex internally developed applications and enterprise-class services

+ Operate and maintain highly available production systems

+ Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale Linux and Windows environment

+ Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations

+ Continuously look for opportunities to automate changes and implement them

+ Keep supported services compliant with the company and regulatory requirements including but not limited to security, privacy, SOC2, FedRamp

+ Implement and improve monitoring and alerting

+ Build, automate, and improve observability dashboards to provide better visibility in the operational aspects of the systems

+ Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment

Minimum Qualifications

+ B.S. or higher in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or related practical experience

+ 7+ years of experience in the following areas

+ Commercial cloud experience building and maintaining AWS and/or Azure offerings for large scale enterprises

+ Compute: Cloud based Unix and/or windows administration

+ Storage: Cloud based storage provisioning, administration

+ Development Languages: Working knowledge of development and scripting languages

+ Database Technologies: Cloud based database administration

+ Monitoring/Logging tools techniques and configuration

+ Knowledge of Information Security Best Practices

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

+ 10+ Years of hands-on experience with multiples of these example technologies

+ Compute: Windows and Linux operating systems

+ EC2, ElastiCache, Cloud Front, Auto Scaling, Containers, API gateways

+ Storage: AWS S3, EFS, EBS

+ Development Languages: Java, Python, Node JS, Perl, Java Script

+ Database Technologies: MSSQL, MYSQL, AWS AuroraDB, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Postgres

+ Networking: Load balancers (ALB/ELB), SSL/TLS, DNS, Firewall

+ Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Data Dog, LogicMonitor

+ Scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash; specifically for systems automation

+ Experience in 24x7 support of the highly available production systems with experience in keeping stakeholders informed

+ Keen eye to learn and improve from the incidents

+ Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Operators, Product Managers, etc.

+ Passion to run and improve the customer facing systems with high degree of availability (four 9’s)

Learn More

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

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 $160,800 and $260,150. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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