DevOps Engineer III

Location: Pune (Hybrid) Shift: General Shift (IST Hours). Candidate should be flexible to have an overlap of 4 hours with GMT. Contract Duration: 6 months Experience: 5-7 years of overall experience. 5+ years of relevant experience. Responsibilities: - You will lead all aspects of DevOps, CI/CD, Observability, Alerting and Reliability; working to create and maintain most reliable, secure, scalable and highly resilient data streaming platform. - You will lead team level DevOps and SRE outcomes and initiatives. - Configure, improve cloud infrastructure for service availability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency with increasing load over time. - Be accountable for SLOs of the services by driving and improving the process including service reviews, fire drills and HA assessment. - Create innovative solutions to monitor health checks of data streaming apps. - Keep system updated in time for security compliance. - Engage in technical discussions and technical decision-making. - Build tools to improve operation efficiency. - Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of our data streaming platform across Autodesk. - Drive the design, implementation, and management for expanding observability infrastructure, keeping up to date with new technologies. - Come up with innovative solutions for resilient data streaming platform at scale. - You will collaborate with software architects, product managers, and software developers to iteratively transform high-level SRE, DevOps requirements into enhancements that are delivered incrementally. - Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities. - Automate deployment, scaling, and management of infrastructure using modern DevOps tools and practices. - Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions. - Implement and maintain configuration management and infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform. - Define and document best practices across all pillars of DevOps/SRE. Minimum Qualifications: - BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field or relevant experience. - 5+ years of software engineering experience with proven experience in DevOps and SRE accountable for SLOs. - Hands-on experience working with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Demonstrate senior-level experience with development and deployment of AWS services, specifically S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, and databases (Aurora, DynamoDB). - Understand and curiosity of SRE best practices, architectures, and methods. - Experience in Continuous Delivery, deployment with Terraform. - Excellent experience in Java, python, groovy and other programming languages. - Good knowledge on resiliency patterns and cloud security. - Proficiency in using observability tools such as Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, or Prometheus. - Experience with security compliance, such as SOC2. - Hands-on experience with data streaming, transformation, and ETL technologies. - Understanding of Apache Flink, Kinesis, Kafka and Kubernetes. Demonstrate experience of managing clusters of Kubernetes, Mesos etc. - Proven capability to lead incident response, drive root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures. - Expertise in DevOps / SRE practices, including IaC, configuration management, container technologies, microservices, CI/CD processes, etc. - Strong problem-solving skills and capability to work on complex systems. - Experience in working in an Agile environment . - Experience in working with distributed team. Preferred Qualifications: - Passion to run and improve the customer facing systems with high degree of availability (four 9 s). - Experience with Databases and database design principles at cloud scale. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience collaborating in a dispersed multicultural team to deliver projects, sometimes responsible for leading initiatives. - A perpetual learner and often find yourself ideating about new and improved ways of doing things and are confident to share your ideas with the rest of the engineering team. - Demonstrates mature judgment when making engineering decisions, and can reliably make the call between elegant and practical solutions.