Software Development Manager, Platform & DevOps

Job Overview

Autodesk is expanding its Cloud Infrastructure Engineering capabilities within the COO GET Engineering organization. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on platform engineering and application delivery. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership, with approximately 60% of the time dedicated to overseeing the delivery of business applications, including roadmap management, risk assessment, and meeting Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The remaining 40% will focus on the development and enhancement of the internal CI/CD platform, observability tools, and establishing processes that improve developer productivity.

You will lead a team of DevOps/Platform developers, define technical direction, and collaborate with Software Engineering, Security, and Product teams to ensure reliable and scalable outcomes. This is a hands-on leadership position where you will actively remove blockers, review designs and pull requests, mentor developers, and take ownership of end-to-end results. The role operates under a hybrid work model within a Squad Model across all GEO Centers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Platform/DevOps team, including hiring, coaching, career development, and providing feedback.
• Own the delivery of one or more business applications, encompassing roadmap planning and execution, risk and dependency management, release cadence management, and ensuring timely, quality delivery.
• Establish SLOs/SLIs, on-call practices, incident response procedures, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and continuous improvement rituals like error budgets and postmortems.
• Coordinate with product, design, and partner teams, ensuring clear communication of status, risks, and decisions to all stakeholders.
• Operate and enhance Kubernetes/EKS, managing cluster lifecycle, multi-AZ/region strategy, Helm, Karpenter/Autoscaling, networking, service mesh/ingress, secrets, and policies.
• Drive GitOps practices (e.g., Argo CD/Flux) and robust CI/CD pipelines (CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/GitHub Actions/Jenkins) with automated testing, progressive delivery, and secure deployment rollouts.
• Develop standardized 'paved roads' for application teams, including templates, reference repositories, and guardrails, to minimize cognitive load and accelerate time-to-value.
• Implement comprehensive end-to-end observability solutions (logs, metrics, traces, RUM/synthetics) using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, CloudWatch, and Prometheus/Grafana.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to integrate best practices for IAM/KMS/Secrets Manager, vulnerability management, SBOMs, and compliance-by-default.
• Optimize costs and performance across AWS services, Kubernetes, and data layers, publishing transparency dashboards.

Key Skills/Competency

• Software Development Management
• Platform Engineering
• DevOps Leadership
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Kubernetes/EKS
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Application Delivery
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Observability
• AWS

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Our software is used to create amazing things every day, from sustainable buildings and efficient cars to smart factories and blockbuster movies. We empower innovators to bring their ideas to life, transforming not only how things are made but also what can be made. We are proud of our culture at Autodesk, which is central to our work and interactions. Our culture guides how we work, treat each other, connect with customers and partners, and engage with the world. As an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that contributes to building a better world, designed and made for everyone. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

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Salary is a component of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. Offers are determined by candidate experience and geographic location. The package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and comprehensive benefits.

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