Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Trimble; Chennai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Trimble is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead in Chennai to join the Corp Business Systems team. You will lead cloud-based reliability initiatives, own API integrations, and drive automation across services that support Trimble’s digital transformation.

You’ll collaborate with product teams, mentor engineers, and help scale high-availability workloads while improving observability and operational excellence in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or cloud infra.
• Deep AWS expertise and IaC using Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-team influence.

Responsibilities

• Become well-versed in business and Trimble customer needs.
• Establish tight relationships with stakeholders across the company.
• Prototype proofs of concept and iterate with the team.
• Scope and deploy new integrations for Trimble platforms.
• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve customer integration issues.
• Communicate complex issues in non-technical terms to stakeholders.
• Contribute to utilities and SDKs to ease integration and migration.

Skills

AWS expertise

IaC with Terraform/CDK/CF

CI/CD pipelines

Docker & Kubernetes

Monitoring & observability

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Networking & cloud security

Leadership & mentoring

Cross-team communication

HA & DR planning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Engineering/CS

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

## Lead Site Reliability EngineerApplylocations: India - Chennaitime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 5 Days Agotime left to apply: End Date: June 12, 2026 (4 days left to apply)job requisition id: R55826**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 the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.