Job Description
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Jose, CA |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
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