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.

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.