Principal Site Reliability Engineer

An exciting new opportunity has opened for a PrincipalSite 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.

Principal Duties and 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 monitorService 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 identifyroot 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.

Requirements:

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

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

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

• Proven track record of architecting large-scale, highly available systems.

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

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

• Hands-on experiencewith 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.

• Experience in guiding SRE teams and driving reliability strategies.

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and set technical direction.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

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