Cloud Reliability Architect- Remote

Autodesk; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 137,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a cloud reliability architect, where your expertise in resilience and cloud systems will play a crucial role in shaping robust strategies. You'll collaborate with diverse teams to establish standards and enhance system reliability, all while working in a hybrid environment. This position offers the opportunity to influence the resilience practices across all divisions, ensuring the successful operation of Autodesk's innovative products and services. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Annual bonuses

Stock grants

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 8+ years in resilience-focused systems engineering or architecture roles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud engineering and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop resiliency standards and architecture artifacts.
• Consult with partners to incorporate resilience requirements.
• Conduct gap analyses to assess resilience needs.

Skills

Resilience-focused systems engineering

DevOps/SRE

Cloud network engineering

Disaster Recovery Engineering

Application engineering

Risk or compliance assessment

Systems design and architectural frameworks

Business Continuity Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Public cloud IaaS and PaaS

TOGAF

COBIT

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD87970

Position Overview
As an experienced cloud reliability professional in the Autodesk Trust division, you will apply your diverse technology skills to guide resilience practices in a rapidly evolving landscape. Drawing on your extensive experience in cloud reliability and information technology domains such as system availability, disaster recovery, backup, systems architecture, software architecture, cloud systems, and network engineering, you'll establish or enable foundational standards, design patterns, and reference architectures. Your primary goal will be to help Autodesk understand and implement resiliency requirements at a business scale.

Operating across all divisions of Autodesk, you'll ensure a comprehensive approach to resilience strategy. Your work informs the needs for the entire lifecycle of Autodesk products and services, encompassing creation, design, development, testing, implementation, and ongoing operation. In your role, you will not only apply your existing expertise but also further develop and refine your skills within the context of Autodesk's large-scale operations.

Your role as a cloud reliability architect does not have managerial responsibility. However, you will be comfortable as a technical leader; actively seeking, influencing, forming, and leading development of requirements across all Autodesk with numerous stakeholder types.

Autodesk embraces a hybrid-work policy, and you will work remotely from your home office with a team of Architects, reporting to the Director of Trust Architecture.

Responsibilities

1. Design and develop resiliency standards, reference designs, templates, and architecture artifacts to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability of systems and services.

2. Consult with product and service partners to incorporate resilience requirements and best practices into their systems.

3. Conduct gap analyses to assess resilience needs versus actual implementations in products, environments, and business systems.

4. Maintain communication channels with partners within and outside Autodesk Trust to identify and act on resilience opportunities.

5. Research and evaluate emerging technologies to identify solutions that address gaps or enhance resilience capabilities.

6. Apply risk calculations to facilitate and inform strategic decision-making processes.

7. Use systems design and thinking principles to translate and enable resilience at scale, ensuring consistency across Autodesk.

8. Provide mentorship and promote awareness through professional excellence and engagement.

Minimum Qualifications

1. 8+ years in resilience-focused systems engineering, DevOps/SRE, or architecture roles.

2. Significant hands-on experience with at least 7 out of the following 11 areas:

3. Public cloud IaaS and PaaS engineering/architecture.

4. System engineering or architecture.

5. Site Reliability Engineering or architecture.

6. Disaster Recovery Engineering or architecture.

7. Business Continuity Engineering or architecture.

8. Cloud network engineering or architecture.

9. Application engineering or architecture.

10. DevOps including serverless and container/orchestration engineering and architecture.

11. Standards and reference architecture creation.

12. Familiarity with systems design and architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and COBIT.

13. Risk or compliance assessment experience.

Trust at Autodesk
The Autodesk Trust Team oversees security, privacy, compliance, trusted AI, and resiliency. Our mission is to be trusted partners to our customers by managing standards and requirements that foster confidence in Autodesk products. We support the entire product lifecycle and enterprise systems, working proactively to address threats and maintain trust. Join us to help Autodesk’s customers design and make a better world!

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About Autodesk
Autodesk’s software enables the creation of innovative, sustainable, and impactful projects—from green buildings to blockbuster movies. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and inclusion, where everyone can thrive and contribute to shaping the future.

As an Autodesker, you can bring your whole authentic self and do meaningful work that impacts the world. Ready to make a difference? Join us!

Salary transparency

Starting base salary in Canada-BC ranges from $137,300 to $201,300, depending on experience and location. Compensation includes base salary, annual bonuses, commissions (for sales roles), stock grants, and comprehensive benefits.

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