Manager, Engineering – Cloud Infrastructure Automation

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, inciden…