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

- **Company:** Sierra Business Solution LLC
- **Location:** Plano, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Packaging, Application Release Automation, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Windows PowerShell, Role-Based Access Control, Release Management, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Scripting, Enterprise Software Applications, System Availability, Grafana, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Azure AKS, Terraform, Atlassian Bamboo, Docker
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/86dc8752-7391-4e8b-8e93-3a2e15214f24

## About the Role

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.

## Description

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.