Site Reliability Engineer

An exciting new opportunity has opened for a 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. 

Requirements: 

• 5+ 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)  

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

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

• Hands-on experience with 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. 

• 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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