Senior Platform Engineer

Autodesk; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a talented Platform Engineer to enhance the CloudOS platform, pivotal for our cloud services. The role involves building and scaling this infrastructure, collaborating extensively with engineering teams, and working with advanced technologies like AWS and Kubernetes.

A strong foundation in CI/CD principles, hands-on scripting skills, and experience with tools like Jenkins and Terraform are essential. Join Autodesk and drive the future of our cloud development!

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related role.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage the CloudOS platform.
• Collaborate with internal teams to understand CI/CD needs.
• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions for platform health.

Skills

Monitoring and observability tools

Communication and collaboration skills

Containerisation (Docker)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Platform Engineering or DevOps experience

CI/CD principles

Scripting languages (Python, Go, Java)

Troubleshooting skills

AWS expertise

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

GitOps workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance features and capabilities within the CloudOS platform
• Manage and operate the underlying infrastructure for CloudOS, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency (leveraging technologies like Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Work extensively with Jenkins, Spinnaker and HarnessCD: configuration, management, upgrades, and potentially contributing improvements upstream or developing custom extensions
• 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)
• Collaborate with internal application teams (our customers) to understand their CI/CD requirements, provide support, troubleshoot issues, and evangelize best practices for using CloudOS
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure platform health and performance
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing within the team and for platform users
• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in CI/CD, cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the CloudOS platform

Qualifications

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, ELK Stack)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Hands‑on experience with containerisation (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• 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)
• Proficiency in scripting and/or programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• 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
• Experience building and supporting internal developer platforms or tools
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes operations and management
• Familiarity with multi‑region cloud application architectures and deployment strategies
• Experience with GitOps workflows