Senior Technical Lead - DevOps, Python, Kubernetes
India
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead - DevOps, Python, Kubernetes
Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Job Summary

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in building, automating, and maintaining the infrastructure and pipelines that support our API program. You will work closely with API developers, platform engineers, and SRE teams to enable rapid, reliable and secure delivery of products. Your expertise in Devops practices, CI/CD, and API management will ensure our products are robust, scalable and efficient.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment using GitHub Actions / Jenkins / similar tooling.
  • Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), ensuring secure and repeatable deployments.
  • Deploy and operate containerized workloads on cloud platform, rollout strategies, and environment promotion.
  • Build and maintain platform observability: metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards; drive improvements in availability and MTTR.
  • Collaborate with development and security teams to implement DevSecOps practices (secrets management, least privilege IAM, vulnerability scanning, policy compliance).
  • Troubleshoot production incidents, drive root cause analysis, and implement preventive automation and resiliency improvements.

Skill Requirements

  1. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Strong hands-on experience with core GCP services such as:
    • Compute / Storage / Networking (e.g., VPC, firewall rules, private access patterns)  
    • GKE (cluster operations, upgrades, workload troubleshooting)
  1. CI/CD & Automation
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions (preferred), Jenkins/GitLab CI (acceptable), Kokoro (Preferred)
  • Strong scripting in Bash and/or Python
  • Git best practices: branching strategies, PR reviews, release tagging
  1. Infrastructure as Code & Configuration
  2. Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and modular IaC patterns
  3. Containers & Orchestration
  • Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals (deployments, services, ingress)
  • Troubleshooting pods, nodes, networking, resource limits/requests
  1. Databases / Distributed Systems (Added)
  • PostgreSQL: operations, tuning, backup/restore, migration support
  • Cassandra: cluster operations, performance tuning, reliability practices
  • ZooKeeper: cluster management, monitoring, stability troubleshooting
  1. Observability

Monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus/Grafana

Other Requirements

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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 226,300 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 December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.

23 Benefits At HCLTech, we believe in empowering our employees with comprehensive benefits that support their professional growth and enhance their well-being. When you sign up for a career with us, you gain access to: https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/a701dca9-f32d-4fc9-9447-6.svg Industry-benchmarked compensation https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/b0c54381-ddcc-4a33-9b35-9.svg Best-in-class healthcare benefits https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/b73027be-7aae-4d36-a090-4.svg Personal time off https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/d5b4fdfd-2e99-4e26-9878-9.svg Maternity and paternity benefits https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/3d42b0fc-4652-435a-9ece-c.svg Access to skills / higher education programs/resources https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/aeddeaf2-9e25-4584-ad11-d.svg Discounts on products and services via Benefit Box https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/a9609a3b-2700-4b3c-9d90-a.svg Participate in CSR programs and live life with a purpose https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/147eb21f/c6e33851-710f-4634-bd69-f.svg Opportunities to grow and advance your career Note: The benefits listed above vary depending on the nature of your employment and the country where you work. Some benefits may be available in some countries but not in all.