Senior Platform Engineer

Join the team building the platform that powers Autodesk's cloud services. You'll be working on CloudOS, our cutting-edge Continuous Deployment (CD) platform used by our internal cloud engineering teams to get their code safely to production. As a central component of the Autodesk Cloud Developer Platform, CloudOS simplifies and standardizes how teams provision and manage their front-end, back-end, and infrastructure components across multiple global regions.
 

We are seeking a talented and passionate Platform Engineer to join the CloudOS team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, operating, and scaling the CloudOS platform. You will work closely with internal engineering teams to understand their deployment needs, enhance the platform's capabilities, ensure its reliability, and drive adoption across Autodesk. If you're excited about building robust developer platforms, automating complex workflows, and working with the public cloud using Compute platforms like EC2, ECS and EKS and IaC like Terraform/OpenTofu and Serverless.com at scale, this is the role for you. We’re primarily an AWS shop but have workloads on Azure and GCP.

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  Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance features and capabilities within the CloudOS platform

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  Manage and operate the underlying infrastructure for CloudOS, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency (leveraging technologies like Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP)

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  Work extensively with Jenkins, Spinnaker and HarnessCD: configuration, management, upgrades, and potentially contributing improvements upstream or developing custom extensions

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  Develop automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks using scripting (e.g., Python, Go, Java) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform and Serverless.com)

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  Collaborate with internal application teams (our customers) to understand their CI/CD requirements, provide support, troubleshoot issues, and evangelize best practices for using CloudOS

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  Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform health and performance

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  Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing within the team and for platform users

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  Stay current with industry trends and advancements in CI/CD, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering

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  Participate in an on-call rotation to support the CloudOS platform

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, OR equivalent practical experience

• Proven experience with 5+ years in a Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related role

• Solid 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 at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or 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

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, ELK Stack)

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• 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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