24 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation workflows.
- Design, deploy, and operate AWS cloud infrastructure for high availability, scalability, and security.
- Build and support multi-availability-zone and multi-region architectures, including failover and resiliency patterns.
- Administer databases through installation, upgrades, patching, hardening, backup and restore, migrations, capacity planning, performance tuning, and query optimization.
- Define and validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including RTO/RPO targets, restore testing, and DR runbooks.
- Improve system reliability, automation, operational maturity, and security controls with application, infrastructure, security, and platform teams.
- Build and enhance observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, and distributed logging and monitoring solutions.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements for production systems.
- Optimize cloud spending through rightsizing, storage optimization, and AWS Cost Explorer.
- Support infrastructure for data pipelines, analytics workloads, model-serving platforms, and AI-enabled applications.
- Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, runbooks, and platform best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, and/or DBA roles.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, storage, monitoring, backup, and security services.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Strong database administration experience covering backup and recovery, replication, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and security hardening.
- Experience designing and operating high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including multi-region deployments, failover testing, and RTO/RPO planning.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals including VPCs, routing, ingress and egress, load balancing, DNS, VPN or private connectivity, and WAF.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response in cloud-native environments.
- Understanding of cloud security practices including IAM, RBAC, encryption, key management, auditability, and compliance controls.
- Experience supporting relational databases, NoSQL systems, streaming platforms, or search and analytics platforms.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or AWS Database Specialty are preferred.
- Experience with multi-region AWS production architecture, backup automation, disaster recovery drills, and restore validation is preferred.
- Exposure to OpenSearch, Kafka or MSK, Redis or MemoryDB, MongoDB or DocumentDB, RDS or Aurora, AI/ML platform operations, MLOps tooling, or data science and AI infrastructure is preferred.
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About Tekion
Tekion builds an AI-native, cloud platform for automotive retail that unifies dealers, OEMs, and partners. Its products include Automotive Retail Cloud (a dealership management system for retailers), Automotive Enterprise Cloud for manufacturers, and Automotive Partner Cloud for integrations, delivered as subscription software. Privately held and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Tekion raised private equity funding in 2024.