Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Lead a Site Reliability Engineering function for Trimble's Business Systems platform, which fuels the company's digital transformation and is used by Trimble product teams and partners.

What you'll do

• Become well-versed in the opportunities and challenges of the business and Trimble's customers.
• Become an expert in Business Systems services, especially the interfaces: APIs, protocols (e.g. OAuth), and user interfaces.
• Establish, then utilize tight working relationships with stakeholders across the company, especially Trimble's engineering community.
• Prototype and create proofs of concept as required.
• Leverage your team to come up with solution proposals iteratively.
• Scope and deploy new integrations.
• Investigate, diagnose, and solve customer integration issues.
• Effectively communicate technical issues with stakeholders in non-technical language.
• Contribute to utilities and SDKs to help integration and migration efforts.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• 2+ years in a leadership or mentoring capacity.
• Deep AWS expertise (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS).
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong scripting or programming background (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Sound understanding of networking, security, and identity/access management in the cloud.
• Experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams.

Nice to have

• AWS or other Cloud Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.).
• Experience with AIOps, Serverless Architectures, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and cost optimization frameworks.
• Experience with SaaS monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sumo Logic, PagerDuty).
• Exposure to Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional reliability initiatives or platform-wide automation projects.

Details

• Work location: Chennai.
• Job level: P3.