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.