Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer - GovCloud (Remote)

Autodesk, Inc.; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services for Autodesk GovCloud.

You will own reliability practices, automate deployment, incident response, and toil reduction, collaborating with product engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure production readiness and compliance. This role requires experience in large-scale cloud environments, strong automation skills, and a passion for improving

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Production Operations.
• Experience operating and supporting customer-facing production services in large-scale cloud environments.
• Experience with reliability engineering principles, including SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident management, capacity planning, production readiness, and automation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary owner for the reliability, availability, performance, operability, and capacity of one or more production services.
• Deploy, operate, maintain, and continuously improve production services running in Autodesk GovCloud environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability, scalability, security, and operability in mind.
• Define and operate reliability practices such as SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, production readiness reviews, service reviews, and operational health reviews.
• Build automation to improve deployment safety, operational efficiency, incident response, and service recovery.
• Design, develop, and maintain software, automation, and tooling that improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems.
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and observability capabilities across supported services.
• Lead and participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews focused on learning and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Scale and enhance resilience testing and Gameday practices to validate system behavior, recovery capabilities, and operational readiness.
• Continuously identify and eliminate operational toil through software engineering, automation, and process improvement.
• Ensure supported services remain compliant with Autodesk security, privacy, and regulatory requirements, including FedRAMP and related controls where applicable.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for production services.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Automation

Observability

Cloud Infrastructure

Python

Go

Java

PowerShell

Bash

CI/CD

Education

B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Splunk

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services for Autodesk GovCloud.

You will own reliability practices, automate deployment, incident response, and toil reduction, collaborating with product engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure production readiness and compliance. This role requires experience in large-scale cloud environments, strong automation skills, and a passion for improving