Lead Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at Trimble. Chennai · full-time.
Pay not stated Site Reliability salary
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What you'll do
- Build prototypes and proofs of concept, then shape solution proposals with your team
- Plan and roll out integrations for Business Systems services
- Diagnose customer integration problems and work through them to resolution
- Explain technical issues in accessible language to stakeholders across the company
- Develop utilities and SDKs that support integration and migration work
What you bring
- At least seven years in site reliability, DevOps or cloud infrastructure, including two years leading or mentoring
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer engineering, computer science or a related field
- Strong AWS skills, including infrastructure-as-code, delivery pipelines, containers and cloud monitoring
- Programming or scripting ability, plus knowledge of cloud networking, security and access controls
- Experience planning high availability and disaster recovery for critical workloads
Who this fits
This role suits a senior engineer who can lead or mentor others and influence teams across the company. You’ll work from Chennai and explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
From the employer
Job Title - Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Job Level: P3
Department: Corp Business Systems
Work Location:Chennai
Trimble is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to join Business Systems.
Our team is building the platform fuelling Trimble’s digital transformation. We take a cloud-first approach to deliver customer-centric experiences & platform web services that are used by Trimble product teams and Trimble partners. As a Solutions Engineer, you’ll be a vital part of Trimble’s Engagement Team for Digital Transformation. This team enables and aids Trimble’s product teams and partners with adopting and integrating Trimble cloud services with a customer-centric ideology always in mind. You will be an expert of Business Systems services, building, proving out, and communicating the value of the platform that is enabling Trimble’s Digital Transformation.
Role Objectives
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 in this effort 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 Skills & Experience You Should Bring
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience: 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles with at least 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.
Desired Skills
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.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on one of the Apply buttons located in this posting.
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