Summary
What you’ll impact
The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the architecture, governance, and reliability of the organization's Azure platform, ensuring it scales to petabytes of security data and billions of daily events. This role involves driving DevSecOps practices, automating microservices deployment, and collaborating with engineering, product, and security teams to deliver secure, high‑performance solutions. The position is onsite Monday‑Thursday in Kansas City (or San Jose or Sarasota) with Friday remote.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- 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.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 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. This is a platform engineering role rather than a Microsoft 365, Intune, or Windows administration role.
- 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.
- 10-12 years of experience, Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and or years of relative experience
- Relevant certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Kubernetes, or security-related credentials) are a plus. Certifications complement production depth and do not substitute for it.
- Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to one of these three cities.