Senior GovCloud SRE - Reliability & Automation

Autodesk, Inc.; Idaho; Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary transparency

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable GovCloud services. You will establish operating model, reliability practices, automation, and engineering standards for production services in restricted cloud environments.

The role requires experience with large-scale cloud systems, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, observability, and toil reduction, plus collaboration across product, security, and compliance teams.

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
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident management, capacity planning, production readiness, and automation
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms
• Experience developing automation using languages such as Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, Bash, or similar
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and modern cloud operations practices
• Understanding of security, compliance, and operational risk management in production environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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
• Function effectively in a fast-paced environment while helping establish and mature operational excellence practices for Autodesk GovCloud

Skills

SRE experience

Automation

Cloud platforms

Programming languages

IaC / CI-CD

Security & compliance

Communication skills

Education

BS in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud observability tools

CloudWatch

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Job description

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate reliable, secure, and scalable GovCloud services. You will establish operating model, reliability practices, automation, and engineering standards for production services in restricted cloud environments.

The role requires experience with large-scale cloud systems, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, observability, and toil reduction, plus collaboration across product, security, and compliance teams.