# Principal Network DevOps Engineer **Company**: Autodesk **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/job/Bengaluru-IND/Principal-Network-Engineer_26WD98484-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3a45c34e-7bf ## Description Autodesk is looking for a Principal Network DevOps Engineer to join its Global Network Engineering team. The role involves leading the transformation of traditional network operations into intelligent, autonomous, and continuously improving platforms powered by AI. Responsibilities: - Design and implement AI-driven operational platforms and intelligent automation solutions for network and cloud infrastructure - Develop AI-powered assistants, decision-support systems, and operational intelligence capabilities to improve engineering productivity - Design autonomous and semi-autonomous workflows using multi-step reasoning, intelligent orchestration, and automated execution - Develop AI-powered troubleshooting, diagnostics, incident triage, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and operational insight solutions - Implement enterprise knowledge retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities that retrieve, correlate, analyze, and act on information from multiple enterprise data 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 and promote Responsible AI, security, compliance, and governance standards - Evaluate emerging AI technologies and drive the adoption of AI-enabled operational capabilities across the enterprise - Participate in the complete network lifecycle, including planning, design, qualification, deployment, operations, and optimization - Support the implementation of Autodesk's global network backbone and strategic infrastructure initiatives - Define and drive the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for Autodesk's global network and cloud connectivity platforms - Develop, maintain, and enforce network engineering standards to ensure consistent infrastructure deployment - Design and develop scalable automation frameworks using Python, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, and modern automation technologies - Build reusable automation services, integration components, Software Development Kits (SDKs), and orchestration capabilities - Implement GitOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows across network platforms and automation services - Automate network provisioning, validation, compliance assessments, governance controls, and remediation workflows - Develop self-service automation platforms that improve efficiency and productivity for Engineering and Operations teams - Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices for network automation, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud networking - Manage enterprise-scale Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions - Design and develop integrations across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, operational tools, security platforms, Information Technology Service Management (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 deliver scalable, resilient, and secure solutions - Build enterprise knowledge platforms that integrate structured and unstructured information, 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 management systems - Develop automation solutions that support governance, risk management, compliance, and audit requirements, including intelligent approval workflows and policy enforcement - Ensure AI solutions 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 - Develop 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 and automated insights Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience - 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Automation Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, or a related technical discipline - Strong expertise in Python development, API development, automation engineering, and software design - Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, 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 Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with working knowledge of cloud networking and hybrid connectivity - Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Lambda, Route 53, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and Cloud WAN - Knowledge of firewall technologies, network security configurations, and troubleshooting methodologies - Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and system design skills - Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple teams - Experience working effectively within Agile development frameworks - Strong presentation skills with the ability to communicate technical policies, proposals, and architectural designs - Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills - Ability to manage long-term, milestone-driven projects while collaborating across multiple teams ## Skills ### Required - Python - API development - automation engineering - software design - Infrastructure as Code - Terraform - AWS CloudFormation - CI/CD pipelines - GitOps - enterprise automation platforms - cloud platforms - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Microsoft Azure - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - cloud networking - hybrid connectivity - AWS services - Transit Gateway - Direct Connect - Lambda - Route 53 - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Cloud WAN - firewall technologies - network security configurations - troubleshooting methodologies ### Nice to have - Agentic AI solutions - intelligent automation platforms - Generative AI technologies - Large Language Models (LLMs) - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - enterprise search - knowledge integration patterns - AI governance - security - compliance - auditability - explainability - Responsible AI practices - conversational experiences - self-service automation platforms - operational analytics - decision-support systems - workflow orchestration - operational intelligence solutions --- Source: [Apply at autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext/job/Bengaluru-IND/Principal-Network-Engineer_26WD98484-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)