[Remote] Software Development Manager, Platform Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Autodesk is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead its Cloud Infrastructure Engineering capability within the COO GET Engineering organization. The role manages Platform and DevOps engineers, owns delivery for business applications, and drives the evolution of CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes environments, observability, developer workflows, reliability, and secure cloud infrastructure.
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 tools such as 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
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure-by-default infrastructure practices
- Help optimize cloud cost efficiency, scalability, reliability, and performance across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, resilience engineering, and operational ownership
Skills
- 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
- Experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms and self-service engineering workflows
- Familiarity with service meshes, policy engines, secrets management, and platform governance
- Experience supporting multi-region architectures and resilience engineering initiatives
- Knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring strategies
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, or SQS
- Familiarity with SOX, SOC2, compliance frameworks, and FinOps practices
Benefits
- Health and financial benefits
- Time away
- Everyday wellness
- Annual cash bonuses may be included in the compensation package
- Stock grants may be included in the compensation package
- A comprehensive benefits package may be included in the compensation package
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