Cloud Operations Engineer

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title - Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Job Level: P3  

Department: Corp Business Systems

 

Trimble is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to join Business Systems. This position is a contract position located at the Trimble office in Chennai, India.

 

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.

Join a Values-Driven Team: Belong, Grow, Innovate. 

At Trimble, our core values of Belong, Grow, and Innovate aren't just words—they're the foundation of our culture. We foster an environment where you are seen, heard, and valued (Belong); where you have an opportunity to build a career and drive our collective growth (Grow); and where your innovative ideas shape the future (Innovate). We believe in empowering local teams to create impactful strategies, ensuring our global vision resonates with every individual. Become part of a team where your contributions truly matter. 

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Experience Level

Senior Level