Principal DevOps Engineer - Azure

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.