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Principal DevOps Engineer

TENEX.AI· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA), Hybrid (Sarasota, FL HQ), Hybrid (Kansas City, MO SOC)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead technical architect for Azure, CI/CD, and SRE practices to ensure highly available, secure, and scalable Azure-based platform handling vast security data and events.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture of our Azure platform as it scales to petabytes of security data and billions of daily events.
  • Own our Azure governance and environment model, including subscription and management group structure, Azure Policy, network topology, and identity.
  • Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives, defining and driving adherence to critical Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and managing on-call rotations.
  • Drive operational excellence by implementing advanced monitoring, observability (logs, metrics, tracing), automated provisioning, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Establish and enforce DevSecOps practices, standardizing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), security testing, and deployment mechanisms for rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.
  • Automate deployment, scaling, and management of microservices and event-driven systems using containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
  • Maintain workload portability across the platform so that infrastructure decisions remain reversible.
  • Partner with engineering teams to optimize application performance, resource utilization, and cloud cost efficiency.
  • Mentor and influence engineering teams on best practices in Azure architecture, reliability, and security-first development.
  • Collaborate with Product Management and Security Operations to translate new product requirements and operational needs into scalable and cost-effective platform solutions.
  • Evaluate and drive the adoption of new infrastructure technologies and engineering methodologies to maintain a competitive advantage.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise building production Azure platforms, including AKS, Entra ID and workload identity federation, VNet design and Private Link, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and subscription or landing zone architecture.
  • Experience standing up or moving production workloads across cloud environments, with the ability to describe the design, the data path, the cutover, and what broke.
  • Experience building secure and compliant (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) environments.
  • Deep understanding of microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Bicep) and CI/CD best practices.
  • Production experience writing and shipping software in Go or Python, beyond scripting and configuration.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, ELK stack, or similar).
  • Familiarity with real-time data pipelines and stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven track record of architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, distributed, and secure enterprise-grade SaaS platforms.

Skills

Required:Azure platform architectureCI/CD and IaCGo or PythonMonitoring and observabilityDocker/Kubernetes (AKS)Security and compliance

Benefits

  • Culture-focused environment with in-person collaboration emphasis (on-site Wednesdays/onsite preference in KC, with remote options).
  • Competitive startup-backed compensation and growth opportunities.
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About TENEX.AI

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With a focus on precision and scalability, TENEX delivers comprehensive cyber security solutions that evolve with your organization.

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