Platform Engineering Leader — Cloud & DevOps

Autodesk; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 148,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Platform/DevOps team focused on cloud infrastructure, delivery ownership for business applications, and evolving internal CI/CD platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive operational excellence across AWS and Kubernetes environments, with a hands-on leadership style and emphasis on scalable, secure systems.

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 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.

Skills

People leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Flux

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

Terraform

AWS CDK

Python

Java

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Platform/DevOps team focused on cloud infrastructure, delivery ownership for business applications, and evolving internal CI/CD platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and drive operational excellence across AWS and Kubernetes environments, with a hands-on leadership style and emphasis on scalable, secure systems.