Manager, Engineering – Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Tekion Corporation; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Medical Insurance coverage

Collaborate with Silicon Valley minds

Job summary

Tekion Corporation in Bengaluru seeks a senior leader to build and run a Cloud Infrastructure Automation & SRE team within Cloud Engineering. You’ll focus on secure, scalable, self-serve infrastructure platforms for Tekion products and services.

You will partner with Cloud Security, Product Security, and Application teams to enforce security best practices, drive IaC adoption, and lead incident response with a strong emphasis on reliability and automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infra roles with at least 2+ years in leadership.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Deep cloud security knowledge, IAM, network security, secrecy management, and compliance.
• Proven ability to drive reliability with SRE practices: monitoring, incident response, post-incident analysis.
• Track record of building high-performing infra or SRE teams.
• Strong automation, CI/CD management, and scalable system architecture.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow cloud infrastructure engineers and SREs, providing technical and people leadership.
• Drive IaC adoption using Terraform, Pulumi, CRD for auditable platform management.
• Oversee reliability, scalability, and performance of critical infra services.
• Architect and optimize AWS/GCP/Azure platforms, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with security teams to define and maintain robust controls and monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams across cloud environments.
• Establish SRE practices for monitoring, alerts, on-call processes, and postmortems.
• Identify automation opportunities across infra, ops, and security workflows.
• Promote continuous improvement and staying current with cloud tech.
• Track and present KPIs to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Cloud leadership

SRE leadership

Automation

CI/CD management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

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.

Job Introduction

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

Key Role 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 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.

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

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree 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+ years in technical leadership or management.

Hands-on expertise in 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 security, secrets management, and compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.).

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

Track record of 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.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Generous stock options.
• Medical Insurance coverage.
• Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies.

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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