DevOps Engineer I

About Tekion:

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology big data machine learning and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3000 people across North America Asia and Europe.

Job Summary
We are looking for a passionate and driven DevOps Engineer with 23 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure CI/CD automation monitoring and containerization. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment takes ownership of their work and is eager to continuously improve deployment processes infrastructure reliability and system performance alongside development and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities
Build maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for application deployments
Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment activities using IaC tools
Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure and production environments
Work closely with developers to support application releases and troubleshooting
Handle Linux server administration and performance tuning
Implement and maintain monitoring logging and alerting solutions
Support containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
Ensure system reliability scalability and security best practices
Participate in incident resolution root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
Follow and contribute to team runbooks SOPs and internal documentation
Raise flags proactively on infrastructure risks capacity concerns or recurring issues

Required Skills
Strong experience in Linux administration
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Knowledge of scripting languages like Bash or Python
Experience with AWS or Azure cloud platforms
Understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible
Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK or Datadog
Understanding of networking security and troubleshooting concepts
Good communication collaboration and documentation skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities

Good to Have:
Experience working in product-based companies
Knowledge of microservices architecture
Exposure to Agile/Scrum environments
Familiarity with secret management tools like HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
Basic understanding of application security practices (SAST DAST vulnerability scanning)
Experience with GitOps workflows or tools like ArgoCD or Flux

What We Value:
A strong sense of ownership : you dont wait to be told you act
Curiosity to learn and adapt as the tech stack evolves
Transparency in communication : raising blockers early rather than late
A collaborative mindset :working with not just for the teams around you

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence the intersectionality of two or more protected categories or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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