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Site Reliability Engineering Management (Chennai)
Trimble Inc.
Chennai · Hybrid Full-time Lead Today
About the role
About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced and technically adept Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to lead and scale the team responsible for our core Observability Platform. This is a role leading a team of highly skilled Site Reliability Engineers that define the strategy, architecture, and evolution of our monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting platform to empower engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate highly reliable and performant services.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers specialising in observability and platform engineering.
- Define and execute the team's roadmap, ensuring alignment with the overall SRE and company objectives, prioritising platform stability, feature development, and cost efficiency.
- Drive wider cultural change by championing SRE principles, observability best practices, and automation across engineering teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading SRE, Platform, or Observability-focused teams.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Software Engineering
- Deep domain expertise in designing, building, and operating high-scale observability platforms (metrics, logging, and tracing)
- Strong technical background with experience in Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong technical background with experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Strong technical background with experience in Programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling development.
- Proven ability to set technical direction, influence technical strategy, and drive architectural decisions in a complex setting.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers specialising in observability and platform engineering.
- Define and execute the team's roadmap, ensuring alignment with the overall SRE and company objectives, prioritising platform stability, feature development, and cost efficiency.
- Drive wider cultural change by championing SRE principles, observability best practices, and automation across engineering teams.
- Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational toil, improve alert quality (reducing noise), and automate common troubleshooting steps.
- Own the end-to-end observability stack (including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems), focusing on scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Own and execute on a roadmap for the observability platform & service by building a team of experts on vendor capabilities
- Provide service based reporting on the SRE service and observability platform, including cost management/prevention
- Strategic alignment by assisting the business in establishing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Indicators (SLIs)
- Architect, design, and implement improvements to the observability platform, leveraging OpenTelemetry.
- Define and standardise best practices for instrumentation, data collection, query efficiency, and visualisation to ensure actionable insights for all development teams.
- Drive the adoption and integration of AI capabilities within the observability platform.
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureGCPGoIaCOpenTelemetryPythonTerraform
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