Manager, Database Reliability Engineering

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 22 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

Role Overview

As the Manager Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) you will lead a team of expert DBREs responsible for the health performance automation and scalability of Tekions data backbone. Your focus will be on operational excellence automation first and continuous improvement of reliability and efficiency for our MongoDB MySQL and Elasticsearch clusters. Youll mentor your team drive innovation in database automation (using Go or Python) and collaborate with product engineering and Cloud teams.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Strategy: Build mentor and lead a high-performing Database Reliability Engineering team fostering a culture of technical excellence ownership and collaboration.
Database Operations & Reliability: Oversee the reliability performance availability and scalability of MongoDB MySQL and Elasticsearch across multiple environments and regions.
Automation & Engineering: Architect and drive automation for database provisioning scaling backups upgrades patching and recovery using Go or Python. Establish standards for Infrastructure as Code and self-service database management.
Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement and enhance automated monitoring alerting performance tuning and self-healing solutions. Lead major incident response postmortems and continuous improvement.
Collaboration: Partner with SRE CloudOps Security and development teams to understand requirements drive database reliability improvements and support feature launches.
Best Practices & Documentation: Define and enforce database reliability best practices documentation runbooks and automation guides. Promote DBRE standards and knowledge sharing.
Capacity & Cost Management: Monitor capacity forecast growth and work with engineering and product teams on cost-effective database scaling.
Security & Compliance: Ensure security compliance and data protection in all database operations and automation solutions.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors or masters in computer science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in database engineering DBRE or SRE roles with at least 3 years in a technical/team leadership or management position.
Deep hands-on experience managing and automating MongoDB MySQL and Elasticsearch (good to have).
Strong programming skills in Go or Python for database automation and tooling.
Proven ability to design and implement automation for database lifecycle operations monitoring and self-healing.
Expertise in building running and scaling highly available database clusters (replication sharding backup/restore performance tuning).
Strong knowledge of database security access controls patching and compliance practices.
Excellent communication incident leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Track record of hiring mentoring and developing technical talent.
Prior Manager experience is a must

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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...