Observability SRE

We are a $13+ billion global technology company, home to more than 224,000 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.

HCLTech is a globally recognized leader in the Tech and IT industry, but we’ve never forgotten the startup mindset that got us here. We’ve always approached our work with an idea-first attitude because every one of our accomplishments —no matter how big or small —can be traced back to an idea’s single spark.

It’s that spark —that inner drive —that sets our people apart from our competitors. It enables us not just to pull off game-changing feat after game-changing feat but to better our world in the process. We want you to find your spark. Because that’s what drives you to be better, be more and ultimately, be more fulfilled.

Observability SRE

London, UK

Fixed term contract (12 months duration)

Onsite

SRE within the Group Platform Services & Engineering division which provides the common services to Development, Infrastructure and Production Services. This is an SRE/support position responsible for administering and supporting Production environment as well as engineering reliability into the products / services we support i.e. monitoring & observability platform. The successful candidate will have a vital role in shaping future monitoring strategy and direction.

A fantastic opportunity for somebody with 3+ years IT experience to work with state-of-the-art technologies to deliver industry leading solutions in the Telemetry, Observability and Monitoring space. The successful candidate would join a team of enthusiastic, creative and forward-thinking SRE in the UK who are working in tandem with the engineers to radically transform how the Group manages the operation of its estate.

The position is within a global team consisting of 20 team members, across Engineering and SRE, bringing change across the organisation. The candidate will work closely with their peers in other regions as well as other teams to facilitate the strategic objectives of the team. The challenges we strive to solve include availability, scalability and performance related to delivering a platform used by the entire Group.

The observability platform consists of a combination of platforms and frameworks from in-house, vendors, and open source. These include:

• RightITNow, Ever Bridge, Sentinel (3rd Party tools)

• Cross functional engagement to champion and provide necessary support for the adoption of TOM platform across the group of companies.
• Gain understanding of the various tools and frameworks that together provide observability and notification service to the organization and assist development and production support teams with queries / issues related to their usage of our platform.
• Act as custodian of production environment and engage within the team and outside, if need be, towards building and maintaining robust, scalable, highly available production systems in accordance with our service level objectives
• Preventing production incidents but when they do occur, performing effective incident and problem management and RCA to minimize downtime as well as possibility of recurrence.
• Pushing out changes and releases to production environment reliably via effective change and release management
• Quick and effective response to alerts before they become incidents, with an approach to prevent them from occurring ever again
• Effectively triaging alerts, requests, emails such that things that needs attention get addressed first and in a timely manner in the order of their priority, the drivers for…