Manager, Engineering - Cloud Infrastructure Automation

About Tekion

Tekion is revolutionizing the automotive landscape through cloud-native platforms and intelligent products that power dealerships, OEMs, and partners worldwide. At Tekion, we're passionate about building a future where technology simplifies, secures, and transforms the way vehicles are bought, sold, and serviced. Our collaborative and innovation-driven culture is fueled by a relentless commitment to security, reliability, and scalability as we accelerate our global footprint.

Team Overview

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.

Roles 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.

What makes you relevant for this role?

• 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.