Senior Technical Lead - Azure DevOps / Kubernetes / Grafana

Senior Technical Lead – Azure DevOps / Kubernetes / GrafanaWe are looking for a hands-on Senior Technical Lead with strong expertise in Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Grafana, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and production observability. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with DevOps engineering, Kubernetes-based deployments, release automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and platform reliability. This role requires strong collaboration with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.Key ResponsibilitiesLead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.Design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications and services running on Kubernetes.Establish and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Grafana and related telemetry/monitoring tools.Define dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics to improve visibility into application and platform health.Troubleshoot complex deployment, Kubernetes, infrastructure, performance, and production issues.Implement deployment automation and promote consistent DevOps practices across development environments.Support containerized application deployments, configuration management, scaling, upgrades, and release activities.Improve platform reliability, availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.Partner with application development, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to drive technical solutions.Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, root-cause analysis, and production issue resolution.Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational best practices.Drive automation and identify opportunities to eliminate repetitive manual operational activities.Required Technical SkillsMust Have:Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Azure PipelinesCI/CD pipeline developmentRepositories and source-control workflowsBuild and release automationStrong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes Deployments and ServicesPodsConfigMaps and SecretsIngressScaling and troubleshootingStrong experience with Grafana dashboards, visualization, alerting, and monitoring.Strong knowledge of Docker and containerization.Experience with infrastructure and deployment automation.Strong scripting skills using technologies such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, or equivalent automation languages.Good understanding of Git-based development and release workflows.Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis capabilities.Experience supporting highly available enterprise applications or platforms.Preferred SkillsMicrosoft Azure cloud experience.Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) experience.Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or similar tools.Experience with Prometheus and integration with Grafana.Knowledge of logging and observability platforms.Experience with Helm for Kubernetes application packaging and deployment.Understanding of cloud security, secrets management, RBAC, networking, and secure CI/CD practices.Familiarity with SRE principles and operational metrics.Leadership & Professional SkillsAbility to provide technical direction and lead engineering discussions.Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.Ability to coordinate effectively across application, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.Strong written and verbal communication skills.Ability to mentor team members and drive engineering best practices.Comfortable taking ownership of complex technical and production issues