Staff Engineer, DevOps

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.

Summary: Serves as a senior technical expert driving the design and implementation of scalable infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform reliability. This role leads large DevOps initiatives, partners cross-functionally on infrastructure architecture, and mentors engineering teams to advance DevOps maturity and system resilience. Duties & Responsibilities: • Architects and leads development of advanced CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployment solutions. • Designs cloud-native infrastructure to support high-availability, fault-tolerant applications. • Leads incident response, performance tuning, and capacity planning efforts across systems. • Collaborates with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure platform scalability, security, and compliance. • Implements robust observability frameworks and improves monitoring, alerting, and self-healing mechanisms. • Mentors engineers across teams and contributes to establishing DevOps standards, reusable frameworks, and internal tooling. • Evaluates emerging technologies and drives adoption of modern DevOps patterns to improve velocity and reliability. Qualifications: • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure automation, or platform engineering • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field • Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), and CI/CD tooling • Deep experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), service mesh, and microservices infrastructure • Strong background in system observability, logging, and incident response • Excellent problem-solving, mentorship, and communication skills