Senior DevOps Engineer

NewtonX is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and improve the infrastructure platform supporting its engineering teams. The role focuses on reliability, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code, autoscaling, security, data anonymization, and cross-team infrastructure decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Improve infrastructure reliability: Own GKE workloads, Cloud Run services, and the shared platform layer. Identify single points of failure and eliminate them before they become incidents
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines: Maintain and harden shared GitHub Actions workflows used by all engineering teams. Supply-chain security, EOL runtime upgrades, reusable composites
• Build and operationalize observability: Metrics, logs, alerting, and on-call workflows using Datadog and Prometheus. Design dashboards that surface problems, not noise
• Drive infrastructure-as-code standards: Write, review, and refactor Terraform across all environments. Set the bar for what good IaC looks like at NewtonX
• Improve event-driven autoscaling: Advance KEDA with application-aware custom metrics per workload — moving beyond CPU thresholds to metrics that actually reflect load
• Harden security posture: IAM least-privilege, Workload Identity Federation, SOC2 evidence, Cloudflare Zero Trust, and CI/CD supply-chain controls
• Roll out data anonymization: Implement and scale data anonymization tooling across dev and staging environments to support safe PR deployments and data replication workflows
• Collaborate across teams: Architecture reviews and direct partnership with engineering teams on infrastructure decisions

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years in relevant technology roles (DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE)
• At least 1 year in a Senior DevOps position, or 2+ years as a mid-level engineer with demonstrated ownership of production systems
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and production Kubernetes environments. You've operated these at scale, not just deployed to them
• Solid infrastructure-as-code knowledge, writing, reviewing, and refactoring independently. Not just running terraform apply
• Strong observability knowledge: Metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting in production. Experience designing on-call workflows and incident runbooks
• Strong security knowledge: IAM least-privilege, identity federation, secret management, network controls
• CI/CD and automation: Building and maintaining pipelines and reusable deployment workflows. Scripting proficiency for tooling and automation
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC2 a plus)
• Demonstrated architectural decision-making that significantly improved company security, scalability, and performance
• ArgoCD or Flux
• Auth0 or similar IdP: SAML, M2M, JWT
• Database management( e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Experience with Ingress Controllers or API Gateways (e.g., Kong, NGINX, Istio)