Senior Solution Architect

Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Site Reliability Engineering · DevOps · Cloud Engineering

In short

We are seeking an experienced SRE leader to drive enterprise-wide reliability transformation across various platforms. This role requires technical expertise and strategic leadership in modernizing operations through SRE, AI-driven observability, and automation practices. You will partner with multiple teams to institutionalize modern Site Reliability Engineering practices at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and drive enterprise-wide SRE transformation initiatives.
  • Assess operational maturity and define SRE adoption roadmaps and strategies.
  • Coach and mentor teams on SRE principles, SLI/SLO frameworks, and reliability engineering.
  • Establish and institutionalize reliability metrics and service health management practices.
  • Define and govern enterprise observability strategies leveraging Splunk.
  • Lead implementation of enterprise observability capabilities.
  • Guide teams in implementing Incident Management, Problem Management, and RCA.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce MTTD and MTTR.
  • Promote automation-first operations through toil reduction and intelligent automation.
  • Advise and guide teams on implementing AIOps capabilities.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to embed reliability into technology delivery and operational processes.
  • Drive adoption of Agile and Scrum practices.
  • Measure and report SRE adoption and reliability KPIs to leadership.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) including SLI, SLO, Error Budgets, reliability governance, and service health management with 13+ years of experience.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise SRE transformation programs and coaching engineering and operations teams.
  • Strong hands-on expertise with Splunk Observability Cloud, Splunk ITSI, and Splunk Enterprise.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise observability architecture, telemetry strategy, monitoring standards, and operational analytics.
  • Experience driving Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Blameless Postmortems.
  • Strong track record in Automation and Toil Reduction initiatives (Ansible, Python, RPA and other automation platforms).
  • Experience implementing AIOps and Intelligent Operations practices.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP.
  • Experience institutionalizing SRE practices for various business applications including custom applications, SAP, Salesforce, SaaS/COTS, and business-critical enterprise applications.
  • Drive continuous improvement through Agile and Scrum practices.
  • Strong stakeholder management, leadership, communication, and mentoring skills.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and release automation.
  • Experience with Reliability Engineering practices including Resilience Testing and Chaos Engineering.
  • Experience with Agentic AI, AI Agents, and AI-driven solutions for SRE, DevOps, Automation, and AMS operations.
  • Experience with Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), and self-service engineering models.
  • SRE, Splunk, Cloud, Observability, or related industry certifications.

Benefits

  • Supercharge your potential at HCLTech.
  • Find your career and spark at HCLTech.
  • HCLTech puts its people first.
  • Global technology company with over 223,000 people across 60 countries.
  • Delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud, and AI.
  • Work with clients across all major verticals.
  • Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.
#SRE#Site Reliability Engineering#Observability#Cloud#AI#Automation#Splunk
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Company

HCLTech

Job Posted

3 weeks ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

On Site

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

Bengaluru, India

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