Python Senior Technical Lead - DevOps
United States
Job Description
Python Senior Technical Lead - DevOps
Durham, North Carolina

Job Summary

oin our Observability team responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise platforms

for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across large-scale cloud infrastructure. You'll lead

initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability platforms.

• Build and maintain Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud infrastructure including Indexers, Search

Head Clusters, Heavy Forwarders, and Deployment Servers.

• Deploy and operate large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for log analytics and search.

• Design, deploy, and support distributed tracing platforms using Grafana Tempo and

OpenTelemetry.

• Build and maintain end-to-end tracing pipelines, instrumentation standards, and trace retention

strategies.

• Scale Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry-based monitoring solutions.

• Develop dashboards, alerts, analytics, and trace visualizations using Splunk SPL, Grafana,

Kibana, and Tempo.

• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools.

Skill Requirements

7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps.

• Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.

• Strong knowledge of Splunk SPL.

• Experience with Elasticsearch/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Tempo, distributed tracing,

OpenTelemetry, and Kafka.

• Experience implementing metrics, logs, and traces as part of a modern observability strategy.

• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

• Programming experience in Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash.

Other Requirements

Splunk certification.

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, Consul, CI/CD pipelines, and service

mesh technologies.

• Experience supporting FedRAMP or regulated environments.

Technology stack: 

Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Elasticsearch, ELK, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana

Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Distributed Tracing, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Python,

Go, Ruby, Bash, AWS, Ansible, Consul.

Maximum Salary (US): 
Minimum Salary (US): 
Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion. 

 

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.