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Principal DevOps Engineer - Azure

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Principal DevOps Engineer - Azure in USA

  • TENEX.AI
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture, governance, environment model, networking, identity, and operation of the Azure platform at large scale.
  • Lead SRE initiatives, including SLOs, SLIs, on-call rotations, monitoring, observability, automated provisioning, and disaster recovery.
  • Establish DevSecOps practices covering infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, security testing, and deployment mechanisms.
  • Automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized microservices and event-driven systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.
  • Optimize application performance, resource utilization, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency with engineering teams.
  • Mentor and influence engineers on Azure architecture, reliability, security-first development, and operational best practices.
  • Collaborate with Product Management and Security Operations to design scalable, cost-effective platform solutions.
  • Evaluate and adopt infrastructure technologies and engineering methodologies.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Deep hands-on production Azure platform expertise, including AKS, Entra ID, workload identity federation, VNet design, Private Link, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and subscription or landing-zone architecture.
  • Experience standing up or migrating production workloads across cloud environments, including explaining architecture, data paths, cutovers, and failure handling.
  • Experience building secure and compliant environments, such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 environments.
  • Deep understanding of microservices, containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, and event-driven systems.
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Bicep and CI/CD practices.
  • Production experience writing and shipping software in Go or Python beyond scripting and configuration.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or ELK Stack.
  • Familiarity with real-time data pipelines and stream-processing technologies such as Kafka, Event Hubs, Service Bus, or Pub/Sub.
  • Proven experience architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, distributed, secure enterprise SaaS platforms.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or relevant equivalent experience.
  • Relevant Azure, Kubernetes, or security certifications are a plus.
  • Experience with multiple major cloud providers, cybersecurity or MSSP environments, large-scale data warehousing or lakehouse technologies, high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS, or MLOps is preferred.

Benefits

  • Monday through Thursday onsite with Friday work-from-home; Kansas City is preferred, with San Jose or Sarasota, Florida also considered.
  • Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to Kansas City, San Jose, or Sarasota.
  • Early-stage startup opportunity with meaningful influence on culture, architecture, and company growth.

TENEX.AI

TENEX is the first AI-native, human-led MDR powered by AI SOC. Backed by 24/7 U.S.based expert analysts with 8+ years avg. experience. Our human-led, AI-driven platform delivers 10x faster detection,

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