Senior Lead Developer

HCL is a $11 billion leading global technology enterprise consisting of over 200,000 professionals operating from 52 countries. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. For more on HCL, please visit www.hcl.com

Job Title: Lead OpenTelemetry Developer

Work Location: Dublin, Ireland

Type: Permanent Position

Experience: Required: 5+ Years

Detailed Description-

Lead OpenTelemetry Developer

Description

• As a Lead OpenTelemetry Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining OpenTelemetry-based solutions.
• You will work on instrumentation, data collection, and observability tools to ensure seamless integration and monitoring of applications.
• This role involves writing documentation and promoting best practices around OpenTelemetry.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop OpenTelemetry-Based Solutions: Work on solutions that integrate OpenTelemetry with various observability platforms.
• Write Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation to help users instrument their applications with OpenTelemetry and get started with observability tools.
• Improve Application Observability: Build dashboards and provide guidance on monitoring technologies covered by OpenTelemetry components.
• Teach and Promote Best Practices: Educate teams and customers on best practices around OpenTelemetry, semantic conventions, and various technologies and frameworks
• Coaches team members and leads teams as necessary.

Monitoring/Observability Specialty-

• Develops best-in-class monitoring frameworks for end-to-end flow monitoring and noiseless alerting, ensuring accurate and actionable telemetry.
• Creates automated solutions for software and product upgrades, change management, and release management, enhancing stability, speed, and reliability across services.

Skills

• Experience in Instrumentation: Expertise in at least one programming language supported by OpenTelemetry and a broad knowledge of other languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, .NET)
• Passion for Observability: Strong interest in observability and experience in writing documentation and blog posts to share knowledge.
• Technical Skills:
• Familiarity with tools and technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, and other observability platforms (E.g. Dynatrace, AppDynamics (Splunk), Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Honeycomb)
• Experience in Java instrumentation techniques (e.g. bytecode manipulation, JVM internals, Java agents)

Business Knowledge

• Strong understanding of reliability and production management, with a focus on maintaining high availability and stability across services.
• Risk-aware mindset with knowledge of key operational risks in financial institutions, applying this insight to develop resilient and compliant solutions.
• Promotes a culture of continuous improvement, driving proactive enhancements in processes and systems.

Experience

• Experience in system and software security (SSO, Kerberos, LDAP, Windows AD, etc.), ensuring robust identity and access management.
• Application of engineering principles to production management, supporting scalable and efficient operations.
• Proven track record in automation, effectively reducing manual work and enhancing workflow productivity and consistency.