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Lead Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
- 🇮🇳 India
- On-site
- Staff / Principal
- 1 day ago
- IoT
- Python
- Devops
- SD-WAN
- SNMP
- Ping
- SSH
- Windows
- SOAP
- gRPC
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- MQTT
- RabbitMQ
1 day ago
Job Description
Job Description: Development Lead Network & Infrastructure ObservabilityAbout the Role
We are looking for a Development Lead to own the engineering of a core module within our observability platform, focused on discovery, monitoring, and performance management of networking devices and infrastructure (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, wireless controllers, and related network/IoT endpoints). This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will design and build high-throughput data collection and processing pipelines, lead a team of engineers, and set the technical direction for how the platform monitors, correlates, and alerts on network health at scale.
The ideal candidate has deep experience building monitoring/NMS (Network Management System) style products or modules comparable to the engineering work behind commercial network and infrastructure monitoring platforms and is equally comfortable writing production Python code and guiding architectural decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Lead design, development, and delivery of network device discovery, polling, and monitoring capabilities within the observability platform.
Design and develop scalable data collection pipelines (polling, streaming, and event-driven) capable of handling large device inventories and high-frequency metric ingestion.
Drive engineering decisions around polling engines, protocol handlers, MIB/OID management, topology mapping, and alerting/thresholding logic.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Python developers; conduct code reviews, design reviews, and enforce engineering best practices.
Ensure the platform's collectors and agents are resilient, secure, and performant across heterogeneous vendor devices and firmware versions.
Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and Support teams to ensure reliability, observability of the observability stack itself, and fast root-cause turnaround for field issues.
Evaluate and integrate new protocols, data sources, and third-party MIBs/device packs as network technology evolves (SD-WAN, wireless, cloud-networking, IoT/OT).
Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and stakeholder communication; report on progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to senior leadership.
Maintain a strong security posture across credential handling, encrypted transport, and role-based access for device communication.
Domain & Protocol Scope
Candidates should have hands-on experience developing against or integrating with the following network management and telemetry protocols/standards:
SNMP (v1/v2c/v3): GET/GETNEXT/GETBULK polling, trap/inform handling, MIB parsing and compilation, custom OID mapping.
Flow-based telemetry: NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX for traffic analytics and bandwidth monitoring.
Syslog: RFC 3164/5424 ingestion, parsing, and correlation for event and log-based monitoring.
ICMP: Ping/traceroute-based reachability and latency monitoring.
CLI-based collection: SSH/Telnet automation and screen-scraping for devices lacking API/SNMP support.
NETCONF/YANG and RESTCONF: Structured configuration and state retrieval from modern network devices.
WMI/WinRM: Windows-based server and infrastructure monitoring.
Topology discovery protocols: LLDP, CDP for physical/logical network mapping.
REST/SOAP APIs and gRPC: Vendor and cloud-provider integrations (firewalls, wireless controllers, SD-WAN controllers, public cloud networking).
Streaming telemetry & modern observability standards: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus exposition format/remote-write, StatsD, gNMI (desirable).
IoT/OT telemetry (desirable): MQTT, TR-069/CWMP for CPE/customer premise device management.
Time-series and event pipelines: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar for high-volume metric/event streaming.
Familiarity with routing/switching fu
Job Description (Posting).
Job Description: Development Lead Network & Infrastructure ObservabilityAbout the Role
We are looking for a Development Lead to own the engineering of a core module within our observability platform, focused on discovery, monitoring, and performance management of networking devices and infrastructure (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, wireless controllers, and related network/IoT endpoints). This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will design and build high-throughput data collection and processing pipelines, lead a team of engineers, and set the technical direction for how the platform monitors, correlates, and alerts on network health at scale.
The ideal candidate has deep experience building monitoring/NMS (Network Management System) style products or modules comparable to the engineering work behind commercial network and infrastructure monitoring platforms and is equally comfortable writing production Python code and guiding architectural decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Lead design, development, and delivery of network device discovery, polling, and monitoring capabilities within the observability platform.
Design and develop scalable data collection pipelines (polling, streaming, and event-driven) capable of handling large device inventories and high-frequency metric ingestion.
Drive engineering decisions around polling engines, protocol handlers, MIB/OID management, topology mapping, and alerting/thresholding logic.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Python developers; conduct code reviews, design reviews, and enforce engineering best practices.
Ensure the platform's collectors and agents are resilient, secure, and performant across heterogeneous vendor devices and firmware versions.
Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and Support teams to ensure reliability, observability of the observability stack itself, and fast root-cause turnaround for field issues.
Evaluate and integrate new protocols, data sources, and third-party MIBs/device packs as network technology evolves (SD-WAN, wireless, cloud-networking, IoT/OT).
Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and stakeholder communication; report on progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to senior leadership.
Maintain a strong security posture across credential handling, encrypted transport, and role-based access for device communication.
Domain & Protocol Scope
Candidates should have hands-on experience developing against or integrating with the following network management and telemetry protocols/standards:
SNMP (v1/v2c/v3): GET/GETNEXT/GETBULK polling, trap/inform handling, MIB parsing and compilation, custom OID mapping.
Flow-based telemetry: NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX for traffic analytics and bandwidth monitoring.
Syslog: RFC 3164/5424 ingestion, parsing, and correlation for event and log-based monitoring.
ICMP: Ping/traceroute-based reachability and latency monitoring.
CLI-based collection: SSH/Telnet automation and screen-scraping for devices lacking API/SNMP support.
NETCONF/YANG and RESTCONF: Structured configuration and state retrieval from modern network devices.
WMI/WinRM: Windows-based server and infrastructure monitoring.
Topology discovery protocols: LLDP, CDP for physical/logical network mapping.
REST/SOAP APIs and gRPC: Vendor and cloud-provider integrations (firewalls, wireless controllers, SD-WAN controllers, public cloud networking).
Streaming telemetry & modern observability standards: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus exposition format/remote-write, StatsD, gNMI (desirable).
IoT/OT telemetry (desirable): MQTT, TR-069/CWMP for CPE/customer premise device management.
Time-series and event pipelines: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar for high-volume metric/event streaming.
Familiarity with routing/switching fu
- Designation: Lead Software Engineer I
- Experience: 5-9 Years
- Qualification: Bachelor of Technology/ Engineering
- No. of Positions: 1
- Location: Noida
- Skill (Primary): Technical Skills (ERS)-Other Technical Skills-Networking
Lead Software Engineer · HCL Technologies