Senior Technical Lead

HCLTech; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited seeks a Senior Technical Lead with 7+ years of Datadog administration and observability experience. The role covers monitoring across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, incident management, and governance for enterprise-scale deployments.

You will design, optimize, and automate Datadog configurations, collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Security teams, and help manage platform costs while ensuring high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability, SRE and Datadog platform administration.
• Experience administering Datadog across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Experience with cloud providers AWS/Azure/GCP and container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support the Datadog platform including Agents, Integrations, Dashboards, Monitors, Alerts, and SLOs.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions for applications, databases, cloud services, and Kubernetes environments.
• Configure and optimize APM, Log Management, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, and Cloud Security & SIEM.
• Create operational dashboards and executive reports; optimize alert policies and incident response.
• Manage log pipelines, retention, indexing, and archives; integrate Datadog with cloud platforms.

Skills

Datadog administration

Monitoring & SRE

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes & Docker

Python/PowerShell

Terraform

Automation scripting

Tools

Datadog

Jira

ServiceNow

PagerDuty

Slack

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Job description

Career Opportunities: Senior Technical Lead (189630)

Requisition ID189630-Posted11/05/2026

We are seeking a highly skilled Datadog Administrator with 7+ years of IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability, SRE and strong expertise in Datadog platform administration. The candidate will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and scaling Datadog monitoring solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring high availability, operational excellence, and proactive incident management

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support the Datadog platform including Agents, Integrations, Dashboards, Monitors, Alerts, and SLOs.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions for applications, databases, cloud services, and Kubernetes environments.
• Configure and optimize:
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Log Management
• Real User Monitoring (RUM)
• Synthetic Monitoring
• Network Performance Monitoring
• Cloud Security & SIEM
• Create operational dashboards, executive reports, and monitoring standards.
• Fine-tune alerting policies to reduce alert fatigue and improve incident response efficiency.
• Manage log pipelines, parsing rules, retention policies, indexing, and archives.
• Integrate Datadog with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Automate Datadog configurations using APIs, Terraform, and scripting tools.
• Support incident investigations, root cause analysis, and performance troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Security, and Application teams.
• Monitor Datadog licensing utilization and optimize platform costs.
• Establish governance, tagging standards, best practices, and monitoring framework

Skill Requirements

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience in Monitoring, Operations, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Administration.
• 3+ years of hands-on Datadog administration experience.
• Strong expertise in:
• Metrics, Logs, Traces
• Dashboards & Monitors
• Alerting & Notification Policies
• SLI/SLO/SLA Management
• Distributed Tracing
• APM & RUM
• Experience with:
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Linux & Windows Administration
• Networking & Security Monitoring
• REST APIs
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Shell scripting.
• Experience integrating Datadog with:
• Jira
• ServiceNow
• PagerDuty
• Slack
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Harness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Datadog Certified Professional/Administrator.
• Experience with Cloud Security Monitoring and SIEM.
• Knowledge of SRE practices and Observability frameworks.
• Experience in enterprise-scale monitoring environments.
• Exposure to FinOps and monitoring cost optimization.