What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Lead - Azure DevOps / Kubernetes / Grafana Plano - TX - Texas position at Sierra Business Solution LLC?
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.
Salary : $49 - $53