Job Requisition ID #

26WD98484

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Principal Network DevOps Engineer to join the Global Network Engineering team. Come join us in our journey to provide our customers with a world class SAAS platform, enabling imaginative and industry changing Autodesk products.

We are looking for passionate engineers who are fascinated by cloud networking, automation, and AI-driven operations. In this role you will lead the transformation of traditional network operational processes into intelligent, AI-driven, autonomous, and self-improving platforms. The ideal candidate combines strong networking and cloud fundamentals with deep software engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code, enterprise integration, and hands-on experience building Generative AI and Agentic AI systems that drive measurable operational outcomes.

You will design, develop, integrate, and operationalize AI-powered solutions that use Large Language Models (LLMs), enterprise knowledge systems, intelligent workflow orchestration, advanced analytics, and automation to modernize network operations and engineering productivity. You will partner closely with Engineering, Security, Architecture, Cloud, Platform, Operations, and Business teams to build scalable, secure, resilient platforms and to drive enterprise adoption of Agentic AI capabilities.

The team is crucial to the design & deployment of a consistent, stable infrastructure that both meets network engineering design standards and product goals. You will participate in cross-team and organizational projects, designing, documenting, and implementing new, secure, and automated networking and AI-enabled operational solutions.

Responsibilities

Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation

Design and implement AI-driven operational platforms and intelligent automation solutions for network and cloud infrastructure
Build AI-powered assistants, decision-support systems, and operational intelligence capabilities
Design autonomous and semi-autonomous workflow orchestration with multi-step reasoning and intelligent workflow execution
Build AI-powered troubleshooting, diagnostics, incident triage, root cause analysis, and operational insight solutions
Implement enterprise knowledge retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, including context-aware systems that retrieve, correlate, analyze, and act on data from multiple enterprise sources
Develop conversational and self-service experiences using modern collaboration and communication platforms
Design human-in-the-loop approval workflows for operational, governance, security, and risk-sensitive activities
Implement AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, governance, auditability, and lifecycle management capabilities
Establish responsible AI, security, compliance, and governance standards
Evaluate emerging AI technologies and drive enterprise adoption of AI-enabled operational capabilities

Network & Platform Engineering

Improve and engage in the entire lifecycle of a network, including inception, network design, qualification, deployment, operation, and optimization
Work on implementation of Autodesk's Global Networking backbone strategic infrastructure initiatives
Define and drive the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for Autodesk's global network and cloud connectivity platforms
Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards
Design and develop scalable automation frameworks using Python, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), and modern automation technologies
Build reusable automation services, integration components, SDKs, and orchestration capabilities
Implement GitOps and CI/CD workflows across network platforms and automation services
Automate provisioning, validation, compliance assessment, governance controls, and remediation workflows
Develop self-service automation platforms for engineering and operational teams
Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices for network automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud networking
Manage an enterprise scale SASE solution

Cloud & Enterprise Integrations

Design and develop integrations across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, operational tools, security platforms, ITSM tools, and knowledge repositories
Build scalable connector and API integration frameworks using event-driven and API-first architectures
Design secure data exchange and workflow orchestration services across distributed systems
Collaborate with platform and cloud engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and secure solutions

Knowledge Management & AI Enablement

Build enterprise knowledge platforms that use structured and unstructured sources, including documentation, runbooks, policies, standards, and operational records
Develop knowledge ingestion, enrichment, classification, retrieval, search, summarization, and recommendation capabilities
Improve knowledge discoverability and operational decision-making through intelligent knowledge systems

Security, Risk & Governance Automation

Build automation supporting governance, risk, compliance, and audit requirements, including intelligent approval workflows and policy enforcement
Design AI solutions that comply with enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements
Implement audit trails, traceability, explainability, and operational accountability controls
Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to establish enterprise AI governance standards

Observability, Analytics & Operational Intelligence

Build observability, telemetry, monitoring, reporting, and operational intelligence platforms
Create dashboards, alerts, health monitoring, and performance measurement capabilities
Implement anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and operational reporting using metrics, logs, traces, events, and AI-driven insights
Enable proactive operational management through intelligent analytics

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field, or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, automation engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure or network engineering, or related technical disciplines
Strong expertise in Python development, API development, automation engineering, and software design
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar), CI/CD, GitOps, and enterprise automation platforms
Experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise automation solutions
Experience developing integrations across enterprise applications, cloud services, APIs, and operational platforms
Strong understanding of cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, with working knowledge of cloud networking and hybrid connectivity
Demonstrated history of AWS experience with Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Lambda, Route 53, VPC, and Cloud WAN
Knowledge of firewalls, security configurations, and troubleshooting
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and system design skills
Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple teams
Proven ability to work effectively within an Agile framework
Skilled at presenting technical policies, proposals, and designs
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills
Ability to manage long term, project/milestone-based work with multiple teams
Preferred: Experience designing and implementing Agentic AI solutions and intelligent automation platforms
Preferred: Experience with Generative AI technologies and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Preferred: Experience developing AI-powered assistants, workflow automation solutions, or intelligent operational platforms
Preferred: Understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), enterprise search, and knowledge integration patterns
Preferred: Experience integrating AI solutions with APIs, operational platforms, monitoring systems, ITSM tools, and enterprise applications
Preferred: Familiarity with AI governance, security, compliance, auditability, explainability, and responsible AI practices
Preferred: Experience building conversational experiences and self-service automation platforms
Preferred: Experience developing operational analytics, decision-support, workflow orchestration, or operational intelligence solutions
Preferred: Experience supporting enterprise-scale AI adoption initiatives
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