Principal DevOps Engineer

San Jose, CA, Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will lead the architecture, evolution, and operation of Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices. You will work with Software Engineering, AI/ML, and Security Operations teams to drive automation and operational excellence for a platform handling petabytes of security data.

What you will do

Own the architecture of the Azure platform.
Own Azure governance and environment model including subscription, management group, policy, network topology, and identity.
Lead Site Reliability Engineering initiatives and manage on-call rotations.
Drive operational excellence through monitoring, observability, automated provisioning, and disaster recovery.
Establish and enforce DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Automate deployment and management of microservices and event-driven systems using Docker and Kubernetes.
Maintain workload portability across the platform.
Partner with engineering teams to optimize performance, resource utilization, and cloud cost efficiency.
Mentor engineering teams on Azure architecture, reliability, and security-first development.
Collaborate with Product Management and Security Operations to translate requirements into platform solutions.

Required 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, VNet design, Private Link, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and subscription or landing zone architecture.
Experience standing up or moving production workloads across cloud environments.
Experience building secure and compliant environments (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
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.
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.
10-12 years of experience, Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and or years of relative experience

Nice to have

Working knowledge of more than one major cloud provider.
Prior experience in cybersecurity (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or MDR) or an MSSP environment.
Experience with large-scale data warehousing/lakehouse technologies (e.g., Azure Data Explorer, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery).
Background leading technical initiatives in high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS.
Familiarity with the underlying infrastructure to support AI/ML model deployment and monitoring (MLOps).
Relevant certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Kubernetes, or security-related credentials)

Before you apply

Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to Kansas City, San Jose, or Sarasota, FL.

About the company

TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. It is a fast-growing startup backed by industry experts and top-tier investors.