Senior Software Engineer(Cloud)

Overview

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Position Overview

Become part of the team responsible for developing the core infrastructure that drives Autodesk's cloud services. You will be working on CloudOS, our cutting-edge Continuous Deployment (CD) platform, which is widely utilized by our internal cloud engineering teams. As a crucial element of the Platform Services and Emerging Technologies team, CloudOS streamlines and standardises the provisioning and management of front-end, back-end, and infrastructure components across multiple global regions. CloudOS harnesses the power and flexibility of industry-standard open-source tools, enabling the rapid delivery of new platform capabilities while benefiting from the contributions of the global developer community. This modern approach allows for increased agility and the replacement of outdated, less flexible internal deployment systems.

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Senior Platform Engineer to join the CloudOS team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, building, operating, and scaling the CloudOS platform. You will collaborate closely with internal engineering teams to understand their deployment needs, enhance the platform’s functionality, ensure its reliability, and promote its adoption across Autodesk. If you are enthusiastic about building resilient developer platforms, automating complex workflows, and working on public cloud services using containers like ECS and EKS at scale, this position is ideal for you. While we primarily utilise AWS, we also have workloads on Azure and GCP.

This is a hybrid role which requires few days per week working from Bengaluru office.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, test, maintain, and enhance features and functionality of the CloudOS platform
• Oversee and manage the infrastructure supporting CloudOS, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimization using technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Lead the management and operation of large-scale Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and adherence to best practices across multiple environments.
• Own and execute cluster patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation processes, driving compliance, security hardening, and continuous improvement of platform resilience.
• Develop and maintain automation for cluster lifecycle management, security scanning, policy enforcement, and observability to streamline operations and enhance platform reliability.
• Develop automation scripts for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks using languages such as Python, Go, or Java and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to understand their CI/CD needs, provide support, troubleshoot issues, and promote best practices for utilizing CloudOS
• Implement, manage, and optimize monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain platform health and performance
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team and among platform users
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and advancements in CI/CD, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support for the CloudOS platform
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 5 to 8 years in a Platform Engineering
• Experience working with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure)
• 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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