Senior Manager, DevOps
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:
The Senior Manager, DevOps leads the strategic direction and execution of Tekion’s DevOps and infrastructure automation initiatives. This role oversees global teams responsible for platform reliability, CI/CD, observability, and cloud operations. It focuses on scaling infrastructure, improving deployment velocity, and ensuring operational excellence across the engineering organization.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Defines and executes the DevOps roadmap, aligning automation, reliability, and scalability goals with organizational priorities.
• Manages and scales teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and SRE practices.
• Partners with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to align on architectural standards and operational policies.
• Leads modernization initiatives including infrastructure as code, containerization, and service mesh adoption.
• Establishes SLAs, incident response processes, and performance metrics for platform health and resilience.
• Oversees budget planning, vendor evaluation, and tooling strategy to ensure efficiency and scalability.
• Mentors DevOps managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Job Complexity:
Leads global, cross-functional infrastructure programs with high strategic value. Balances short-term platform demands with long-term architectural and operational vision.
Required Supervision:
Operates with complete autonomy. Responsible for team leadership, budget oversight, and cross-department alignment with executive stakeholders.
Expertise:
Demonstrates deep expertise in DevOps, infrastructure automation, cloud architecture, and site reliability engineering. Influences enterprise-wide technical decisions and leads transformation across engineering operations.
Qualifications:
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure leadership roles
• 5+ years in technical leadership or management, including global team oversight
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Strong expertise in AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD) and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Experience implementing SRE practices, reliability metrics, and service-level objectives
• Excellent leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills
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