26 days ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation workflows.
- Design, deploy, and operate AWS cloud infrastructure, including multi-AZ and multi-region architectures, failover, and resiliency patterns.
- Administer databases, including 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.
- Implement IAM/RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and audit logging controls.
- Build and enhance observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, and distributed logging and monitoring solutions.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident improvements, engineering standards, documentation, and runbooks.
- Optimize cloud spending through rightsizing, storage optimization, and AWS Cost Explorer.
- Support reliable infrastructure for data pipelines, analytics workloads, model-serving platforms, and AI-enabled applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ 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 and experience with multi-region AWS architecture, backup automation, DR drills, and restore validation are preferred.
- Experience with OpenSearch, Kafka/MSK, Redis/MemoryDB, MongoDB/DocumentDB, RDS/Aurora, or similar systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI/ML platform operations, MLOps tooling, or infrastructure supporting data science and AI workloads 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.