Senior Manager, DevOps
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2 days ago
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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.
Summary:
The Senior Manager DevOps leads the strategic direction and execution of Tekions DevOps and infrastructure automation initiatives. This role oversees global teams responsible for platform reliability CI/CD observability and cloud operations. It focuses on scaling infrastructure improving deployment velocity and ensuring operational excellence across the engineering organization.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Defines and executes the DevOps roadmap aligning automation reliability and scalability goals with organizational priorities.
Manages and scales teams responsible for cloud infrastructure CI/CD pipelines monitoring and SRE practices.
Partners with Engineering Product and Security leadership to align on architectural standards and operational policies.
Leads modernization initiatives including infrastructure as code containerization and service mesh adoption.
Establishes SLAs incident response processes and performance metrics for platform health and resilience.
Oversees budget planning vendor evaluation and tooling strategy to ensure efficiency and scalability.
Mentors DevOps managers and senior engineers fostering a culture of accountability innovation and continuous improvement.
Job Complexity:
Leads global cross-functional infrastructure programs with high strategic value. Balances short-term platform demands with long-term architectural and operational vision.
Required Supervision:
Operates with complete autonomy. Responsible for team leadership budget oversight and cross-department alignment with executive stakeholders.
Expertise:
Demonstrates deep expertise in DevOps infrastructure automation cloud architecture and site reliability engineering. Influences enterprise-wide technical decisions and leads transformation across engineering operations.
Qualifications:
10 years of experience in DevOps cloud engineering or infrastructure leadership roles
5 years in technical leadership or management including global team oversight
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field
Strong expertise in AWS GCP or Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform CloudFormation or Pulumi
Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI/CD ArgoCD) and observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK)
Experience implementing SRE practices reliability metrics and service-level objectives
Excellent leadership strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration skills
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