Senior Technical Lead Azure DevOps / Kubernetes / Grafana

Position: Senior Technical Lead Azure DevOps / Kubernetes / Grafana
Location : Plano TX

We 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 Responsibilities

• Lead 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 Skills
Must Have:

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps
  • Azure Pipelines
  • CI/CD 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 CI/CD 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