Manager, Engineering – Cloud Infrastructure Automation

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.

About Tekion

Tekion is revolutionizing the automotive landscape through cloud-native platforms and intelligent products that power dealerships OEMs and partners worldwide. At Tekionwerepassionate about building a future where technology simplifies secures and transforms the way vehicles are bought sold and serviced. Our collaborative and innovation-driven culture is fueled by a relentless commitment to security reliability and scalability as we accelerate our global footprint.

Team Overview

You will lead a high-impact Cloud Infrastructure Automation & SRE team withinCloud Engineering focusing on building andoperatingsecure reliablescalable resilient & self-serveinfrastructure platforms close partnership with our Cloud Security Product Security and Application teamsyoullplay a vital role inestablishingand enforcing security best practices and automation-first principles across all layers of our cloud environments.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Lead and grow a team of talented cloud infrastructure engineers and SREs providing technical andpeopleleadership mentorship and career development.

Infrastructure as Code: Drive the adoption and evolution of infrastructure automation (IaC) frameworks (such as TerraformPulumi CRD) to enable consistent auditable and scalable platform management.

Operational Excellence: Oversee the reliability scalability and performance of critical infrastructure services ensuring high availability rapid mitigation of incidents and root cause analysis.

Platform Enablement: Architect build andoptimizecloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines to support the needs ofTekionsproducts and services.

Security & Compliance: Partner with Cloud Security and Product Security teams to define implement andmaintainrobust security controls policies and monitoring across infrastructure and applications.

Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with engineering security and application teams to balance operational needs reliability and security requirements in cloud environments.

Incident Management:Establish refine and lead SRE practices for monitoring alerting on-call processes incident response and postmortems with a security-first approach.

Automation & Tooling:Identifyopportunities for automation across infrastructure operations and security workflows; enable self-service tooling and guardrails for developers.

Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous learning process optimization and operational excellence keeping up to date with emerging security and cloud technologies.

Reporting & Metrics: Track and present key performance indicators (SLAs SLOs security posture automation coverage incident metrics) to stakeholders and executive leadership.

What makes yourelevantfor this role

• Bachelors or mastersdegree in computer science Engineering or related field OR equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure roles with at least 2 yearsintechnical leadership or management.

• Hands-onexpertisein cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation Ansible etc.).

• Deep knowledge of cloud security best practices cloud-native IAM network securitysecretsmanagement and compliance (SOC2 ISO 27001 etc.).

• Proven experience driving operational reliability with SRE methodologies: monitoring alerting incident response and post-incident analysis.

• Track recordof building and developing high-performing infrastructure or SRE teams.

• Strong background in automation CI/CD pipeline management and system architecture at scale.

• Excellent communication stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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