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# Senior DevOps, DBA engineer at Tekion

- **Company:** Tekion
- **Location:** Chennai, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tekion/60fbe015-c69e-49ec-bec3-be67e4663b42

## Job description

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.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation workflows.
- Design, deploy, and operate AWS-based cloud infrastructure for high availability, scalability, and security.
- Build and support multi-AZ / multi-region architectures for critical workloads, including failover and resiliency patterns.
- Manage and administer databases, including:
- installation and upgrades
- patching and hardening
- backup/restore operations
- schema/data migrations
- storage expansion and capacity planning
- performance tuning and query optimization
- Define, implement, and regularly validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including RTO/RPO targets, restore testing, and DR runbooks.
- Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and platform teams to improve system reliability, automation, and operational maturity.
- Implement strong security and access controls, including IAM/RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and audit logging.
- Build and enhance observability platforms using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, and distributed logging/monitoring solutions.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements for production and business-critical systems.
- Optimize cloud spend through rightsizing, storage optimization, and cost visibility tooling such as AWS Cost Explorer.
- Support infrastructure and operational needs for data and AI platforms, including reliable environments for data pipelines, analytics workloads, model-serving platforms, or AI-enabled applications.
- Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, runbooks, and platform best practices.

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 experience with AWS, including services related to compute, networking, IAM, storage, monitoring, backup, and security.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Strong experience in database administration, including backup/recovery, replication, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and security hardening.
- Experience designing and operating high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including multi-region deployment patterns, failover testing, and RTO/RPO planning.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, ingress/egress, load balancing, DNS, VPN/private connectivity, and WAF.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response in cloud-native environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, including IAM, RBAC, encryption, key management, auditability, and compliance controls.
- Experience supporting data platforms such as relational databases, NoSQL systems, streaming platforms, or search/analytics platforms.
- Exposure to Data/AI infrastructure such as ETL/data pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, model deployment environments, vector/search systems, or AI application support is highly preferred.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Database Specialty.
- Experience with multi-region AWS architecture for production platforms.
- Experience with backup automation, DR drills, and restore validation.
- Exposure to platforms such as OpenSearch, Kafka/MSK, Redis/MemoryDB, MongoDB/DocumentDB, RDS/Aurora, or similar systems.
- Familiarity with AI/ML platform operations, MLOps tooling, or infrastructure supporting data science and AI workloads.

Current Tekion Employees: Please apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby Note: Tekion recently transitioned to a new recruiting tool and we appreciate your patience and feedback as we adjust to our new system!

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

For more information on our privacy practices, please refer to our Applicant Privacy Notice [here](https://tekion.com/legal/privacy/applicant-and-candidate-privacy-notice).

## About Tekion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tekion provides an end-to-end, AI-native platform that unifies dealerships, OEMs, and partners for modern automotive retail.
- **Entity Type**: Private (growth stage; $200M growth equity raise in 2024 at a $4B+ valuation)
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jay Vijayan (CEO) and Guru Sankararaman (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Automotive retail technology, cloud-based dealership management, vertical AI.
- **Target customers**: B2B – automotive dealerships (retail groups and independents) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
- **Mission**: To create a connected, convenient, and consistent consumer experience by unifying dealers, OEMs, and partners on a single AI-native platform.

## Products & Services
- **[Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC)](https://www.tekion.com/)**: AI-native operating system for dealerships covering sales, service, parts, accounting, and analytics. SaaS.
- **[Automotive Partner Cloud (APC)](https://www.tekion.com/)**: Next-gen platform for OEMs and partners to integrate and collaborate with the dealer ecosystem. SaaS.
- **[Tekion AI Agents](https://www.tekion.com/)**: Role-aware AI tools including Service Scheduler AI (automates booking), Technician AI (surfaces repairs), and Service Advisor AI (turns notes into customer-facing recommendations). Embedded in the platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $4B+ (as of the 2024 growth equity round) [[tekion.com/about-us](https://www.tekion.com/about-us)]
- **Key Metric**: 3,000+ dealerships powered by Tekion; 235M+ annual transactions processed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The specific lead investor for the $200M round is not publicly named in available materials. Key partners include General Motors (OEM), Ken Garff Automotive Group, and a Fortune 500 dealer group (largest in the country). [[tekion.com/about-us](https://www.tekion.com/about-us)]
- **Growth Signals**: Secured $200M in growth equity in 2024; crossed 1,100 ARC dealers in 2024; launched Service AI in 2025; earned recognition from Goldman Sachs Builders & Innovators (2022–2025), Forbes Cloud 100 (2023), and Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators (2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native, unified platform**: Unlike legacy point solutions, Tekion is built on a single data foundation, enabling real-time context across sales, service, accounting, and analytics.
- **Vertical AI specialty**: Purpose-built for automotive with ISO 42001 certification (responsible AI) and trained on dealership/OEM data.
- **High adoption & trust**: Customer approval rate for AI recommendations is 95%, and dealers report additional revenue generated from AI in 2025.
- **OEM certifications**: Certified with all major OEMs.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding agentic AI capabilities (Service AI launched 2025) to further automate dealership workflows.
- Deepening enterprise partnerships with large dealer groups and OEMs globally.
- Continuing to scale the platform to more dealers and markets worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Recognized as a Great Place To Work® (2026–2027) and Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators (2025). Values include "One Team," collaboration, and continuous learning. [[tekion.com/careers](https://tekion.com/careers)]
- **Work flexibility**: Primarily in-person culture at Pleasanton HQ, but some fully remote positions exist in US, Canada, and EMEA. India offices (Bangalore, Chennai) are onsite with flex days. Roles are marked as remote/hybrid/onsite in job listings.
- **Perks**: 100% employer-paid medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO (varies by role), stock options, flexible time off, wellness programs, recognition culture.
- **Growth & learning**: Tek-Learn program with Udemy, Frontend Masters, skill workshops, AMAs, and fireside chats.
- **Engineering culture**: AI-native, startup environment focused on disrupting automotive retail; described as "Silicon Valley Startup Environment" with a global team.

## Sources
1. [tekion.com](https://www.tekion.com/) – Product overview, platform details, metrics
2. [tekion.com/about-us](https://www.tekion.com/about-us) – Company history, leadership, funding, awards, partnerships
3. [tekion.com/careers](https://tekion.com/careers) – Culture, benefits, work policy, values
4. [linkedin.com/company/tekion](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tekion) – Entity summary and recent updates
5. [tekion.com/job-openings](https://tekion.com/job-openings) – Current job listings (via careers page)

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