Platform Engineering Lead - Cloud, DevOps & Delivery

Autodesk, Inc.; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Platform/DevOps engineers and drive delivery across business applications and internal CI/CD platforms. You will mentor teams, shape technical direction, and collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering to deliver scalable, reliable cloud solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership in AWS/Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC, with a strong focus on observability and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing and developing engineers.
• 7+ years of engineering experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or related areas.
• Experience delivering and operating business‑critical applications in AWS environments.
• Strong experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, VPC networking, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Kubernetes operations, Helm, autoscaling, and infrastructure security practices.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, TypeScript, or Node.js.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, including incident management, SLIs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication and stakeholder partnership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing Platform/DevOps engineering team.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team culture.
• Own delivery for one or more business applications, including roadmap execution, release planning, risk management, and operational excellence.
• Establish and improve SLOs, SLIs, on‑call practices, incident response processes, and postmortem culture.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering stakeholders to align priorities and communicate progress clearly.
• Operate and evolve Kubernetes/EKS environments across multi‑AZ and multi‑region architectures.
• Drive GitOps and CI/CD best practices using tools such as Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
• Build paved roads, templates, and reusable developer workflows that improve engineering productivity and reduce complexity.
• Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure‑as‑code practices using Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Improve observability and operational visibility across logs, metrics, tracing, and synthetic monitoring.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure‑by‑default infrastructure practices.
• Help optimize cloud cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and performance across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, resilience engineering, and operational ownership.

Skills

People leadership

Cloud infrastructure

AWS services

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform/AWS CDK

Programming languages

SRE practices

Stakeholder management

Job description

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Platform/DevOps engineers and drive delivery across business applications and internal CI/CD platforms. You will mentor teams, shape technical direction, and collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and Engineering to deliver scalable, reliable cloud solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership in AWS/Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC, with a strong focus on observability and cost efficiency.