Platform Engineering Manager: Cloud & DevOps Leader

Socket.dev; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Platform and DevOps engineers within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering group, focusing on delivering business applications and evolving internal CI/CD platforms. You’ll mentor the team, define roadmaps, and drive reliability, security, and observability across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

The role blends hands-on leadership with technical direction, emphasizing scalable systems, operational excellence, and a culture of continuous

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

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support the growth of a high-performing Platform/DevOps engineering team
• 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
• Support infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AWS CDK
• Promote observability and security practices and optimize cloud cost efficiency

Skills

People leadership

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Communication

Stakeholder partnership

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

Flux

Jenkins

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

AWS CDK

Job description

Autodesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Platform and DevOps engineers within the Cloud Infrastructure Engineering group, focusing on delivering business applications and evolving internal CI/CD platforms. You’ll mentor the team, define roadmaps, and drive reliability, security, and observability across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

The role blends hands-on leadership with technical direction, emphasizing scalable systems, operational excellence, and a culture of continuous