Manager, Engineering – Cloud Infrastructure Automation

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 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

You will lead a high-impact Cloud Infrastructure Automation & SRE team within Cloud Engineering, focusing on building and operating secure, reliable, scalable, resilient & self-serve infrastructure platforms for all Tekion. In close partnership with our Cloud Security, Product Security, and Application teams, you’ll play a vital role in establishing and enforcing security best practices and automation-first principles across all layers of our cloud environments.

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

Infrastructure as Code: Drive the adoption and evolution of infrastructure automation (IaC) frameworks (such as Terraform, Pulumi, 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.