TENEX.AI
Principal DevOps Engineer
San Jose, CA +2 · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
Sarasota, FL HQ
Kansas City, MO SOC - Experience
- 8+ years of progressive DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience; education section also states 10–12 years of experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and/or years of relative experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and operation of TENEX’s Azure platform, CI/CD, and SRE practices to support secure, reliable, large-scale security data processing.
What you'll do
- Own Azure platform architecture, governance, identity, and network design.
- Lead SRE, observability, disaster recovery, and DevSecOps practices, including SLOs/SLIs and on-call rotations.
- Automate and optimize deployment and operation of microservices and event-driven systems; mentor teams on reliability and security.
What they ask for
- 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 moving or standing up production workloads across cloud environments and building secure, compliant environments.
- Deep understanding of microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and event-driven systems; extensive IaC and CI/CD experience.
- Production software development experience in Go or Python; experience operating scalable, distributed enterprise SaaS platforms.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of multiple major cloud providers; cybersecurity or MSSP experience.
- Experience with large-scale data warehousing/lakehouse technologies, startup or enterprise SaaS technical leadership, or MLOps.
Tools
Azure, AKS, Entra ID, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bicep, Go
AI focus
Familiarity with infrastructure supporting AI/ML model deployment and monitoring (MLOps) is preferred; the role also partners with AI/ML teams.
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