Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Tekion; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekion in Chennai is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help lead reliability initiatives across its cloud-native platform. You will design scalable monitoring, implement self-healing systems, and drive incident response across high-traffic environments.

You will mentor junior engineers and collaborate with DevOps to embed reliability in design. Expect 5–7 years in SRE/DevOps, strong cloud, Kubernetes, and automation skills.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Expertise in cloud-native architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible).
• Extensive experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Proven track record in incident management, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Strong communication, leadership, and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements scalable monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems to maintain service availability.
• Leads incident response efforts for critical outages, driving root cause analysis and long-term resolution strategies.
• Develops infrastructure automation and reliability tooling to support deployment, recovery, and scaling.
• Collaborates with engineering and DevOps teams to ensure reliability principles are embedded in product and platform design.
• Performs capacity planning, fault tolerance analysis, and performance optimization for high-traffic systems.
• Mentors junior SREs and shares best practices in operational excellence, automation, and incident handling.

Skills

SRE principles

Automation & scripting

Cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Observability stacks

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Performance tuning

Leadership & mentorship

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

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.

Summary:

Leads key reliability initiatives and develops scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure solutions across Tekion’s platform. Plays a pivotal role in incident response, automation, and performance optimization while mentoring junior engineers and improving operational maturity.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Designs and implements scalable monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems to maintain service availability.
• Leads incident response efforts for critical outages, driving root cause analysis and long-term resolution strategies.
• Develops infrastructure automation and reliability tooling to support deployment, recovery, and scaling.
• Collaborates with engineering and DevOps teams to ensure reliability principles are embedded in product and platform design.
• Performs capacity planning, fault tolerance analysis, and performance optimization for high-traffic systems.
• Mentors junior SREs and shares best practices in operational excellence, automation, and incident handling.

Job Complexity:

Leads reliability engineering for large, complex systems. Anticipates issues, improves operational workflows, and ensures reliability at scale.

Required Supervision:

Operates independently with minimal oversight. Trusted to drive high-priority initiatives and influence platform reliability decisions.

Expertise:

Deep technical proficiency in SRE principles, automation, and large-scale infrastructure. Recognized as a go-to expert for reliability challenges and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications:

• 5–7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Expertise in cloud-native architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, and distributed systems
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible)
• Extensive experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk)
• Proven track record in incident management, root cause analysis, and performance tuning
• Strong communication, leadership, and mentoring abilities

Note: Tekion recently transitioned to a new recruiting tool and we appreciate your patience and feedback as we adjust to our new system!

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