Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93575

An exciting new opportunity has opened for a Principal Site 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 monitor Service 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 identify root 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.