Senior Technical Lead Azure DevOps / Kubernetes / Grafana Plano - TX - Texas

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Technical Lead with strong expertise in Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Grafana, CICD, 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 Responsibilities

* Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of CICD 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 telemetrymonitoring 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, CICD, monitoring, and operational best practices.

* Drive automation and identify opportunities to eliminate repetitive manual operational activities.

Required Technical Skills

Must Have:

* Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps

* Azure Pipelines

* CICD pipeline development

* Repositories and source-control workflows

* Build and release automation

* Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes

* Deployments and Services

* Pods

* ConfigMaps and Secrets

* Ingress

* Scaling and troubleshooting

* Strong 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 Skills

* Microsoft 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 CICD practices.

* Familiarity with SRE principles and operational metrics.

Leadership & Professional Skills

* Ability 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.