Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of key components of NewtonX’s infrastructure platform from conception to deployment and maintenance.

• Enhance the reliability of GKE workloads, Cloud Run services, and the shared platform layer.

• Detect and eliminate single points of failure proactively to prevent incidents.

• Sustain and fortify shared GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows utilized by all engineering teams.

• Tackle supply-chain security, end-of-life runtime upgrades, and create reusable composites.

• Establish and operationalize observability using Datadog and Prometheus, which includes metrics, logs, alerting, dashboards, on-call workflows, and incident runbooks.

• Author, review, and refactor Terraform across all environments, while setting infrastructure-as-code standards.

• Promote KEDA event-driven autoscaling by leveraging application-aware custom metrics.

• Strengthen security through IAM least privilege, Workload Identity Federation, SOC2 evidence, Cloudflare Zero Trust, and CI/CD supply-chain controls.

• Implement and expand data anonymization tools across development and staging environments.

• Conduct architecture assessments and collaborate directly with engineering teams on infrastructure choices.

• Support a GCP-native platform that includes GKE, Cloud Run, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloudflare.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in applicable technology positions (DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE).

• At least 1 year in a Senior DevOps role, or 2+ years as a mid-level engineer with proven ownership of production systems.

• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and production Kubernetes environments.

• Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, including independent writing, reviewing, and refactoring.

• Strong knowledge of observability in production encompassing metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting.

• Experience in designing on-call workflows and incident runbooks.

• Extensive knowledge of security practices: IAM least-privilege, identity federation, secret management, and network controls.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC2 is advantageous.

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and reusable deployment workflows.

• Proficiency in scripting for tooling and automation.

• Experience with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux is a plus.

• Familiarity with Auth0 or similar Identity Providers with SAML, M2M, and JWT is beneficial.

• Experience in database management, particularly with PostgreSQL, is advantageous.

• Familiarity with ingress controllers or API gateways like Kong, NGINX, or Istio is a plus.

• U.S. work authorization is required by application form.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401k matching with immediate vesting.

• Generous paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.

• Flexible work setting.

• Regular happy hours, team projects, and retreats.

• Opportunities for technical and career growth.

• A diverse, collaborative, and positive workplace culture.