Senior AWS Operations Engineer

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Senior AWS Operations Engineer to join our talented Operations team. If you are an AWS Cloud Operations engineer, we want you to join! Autodesk, the leading Design and Engineering software company, is transitioning to the cloud. Come work with the team and use your expertise and skills to administer and manage the Enterprise cloud landscape. You will be working closely with the enterprise application teams to ensure systems are secure, highly available and scalable. This position offers an outstanding opportunity for a unique individual who possesses solid Operations and deployment background in cloud technologies.

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams in investigating problems and provide root cause analysis during major and critical outages

• Implement Security Best-Practices to the Enterprise Infrastructure

• Drive and improve performance, scalability, and availability of application resources

• Implement organization's continuance delivery mechanism more effectively

• Work with internal customers to understand requirements and implement configuration changes. Should be able to debug and understand logs

• Prepare and maintain a clear documentation on organization’s infrastructure and architecture

• Optimize scaling/performance of application resources

• Carry out deployments as part of Business Flexible Releases and Infrastructure Maintenance Releases to implement application/infra enhancements for Web/Cloud hosted applications

• Implement preventative and corrective measures

• Drive Project Initiatives, ITIL Queue Management, Co-ordinate for Release Activities

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5-7 years of progressive professional experience

• Minimum of three years hands-on experience with production AWS systems

• Experience in GitHub, Jenkins, and CI/CD

• Hands on experience in EC2, Dockers and Container Services, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, Route53, CloudFront

• Experience in deployment and configuration management tools such as Chef or Puppet

• Experience in supporting Apache, tomcat, jetty or similar servers

• Effective use of Auto Scaling, Monitoring, and logging

• Knowledge of AWS security features and best practices

• Experience in design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services

• Knowledge of Techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability

• Strong system administration experience (Linux/Unix or Windows)

• Experience in Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking, Templates, and other configurable items to enable automation

• Understanding of monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment

• Strong communication skills. Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization

• Ability to comfortably work in a fast paced, dynamic and event driven environment

• Approachable/Personable/Team Player

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

• Preferred: Experience with any of the following languages:  Python, JavaScript, Node.js, shell scripting, HTML, CSS, Micro-services and RESTful web services

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About Autodesk
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