Manager, Engineering – Cloud Infrastructure Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Medical Insurance coverage

Silicon Valley minds

Job summary

Tekion in Bengaluru seeks a visionary leader for Cloud Infrastructure Automation & SRE. You will build and operate secure, scalable, self-serve infra platforms and partner with Cloud Security, Product Security, and App teams.

You will lead a high-impact team, advance IaC with Terraform/Pulumi, manage AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, and enforce security best practices across all layers. This role focuses on reliability, incident response, and automation, with opportunity to

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Infra roles, with 2+ years in leadership
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containers
• Deep knowledge of cloud security, IAM, network security, and compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001)
• Proven track record building high-performing infra/SRE teams
• Strong automation, CI/CD management, and scalable system design
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers and SREs, providing mentorship and career development
• Drive IaC adoption (Terraform, Pulumi, CRD) for auditable, scalable platforms
• Oversee reliability, scalability, and performance of core infra services
• Architect and optimize cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with security teams to define and enforce robust controls
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to balance needs
• Establish and lead SRE practices for monitoring, incident response, and postmortems
• Identify and implement automation across infra, ops and security workflows
• Foster continuous improvement and stay updated on cloud tech
• Report KPIs to stakeholders and leadership

Skills

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

SRE

Security

Automation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

CloudFormation

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

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

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

Job Introduction

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.

Key Role and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Platform Enablement: Architect, build, and optimize cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines to support the needs of Tekion’s products and services.
• Security & Compliance: Partner with Cloud Security and Product Security teams to define, implement, and maintain robust 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: Identify opportunities 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.

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