Senior Platform Engineer — GCP, Kubernetes & IaC

NewtonX, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401k match

Medical Insurance

PTO & holidays

Flexible work environment

Job summary

NewtonX, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure platform that powers multiple engineering teams.

You will be responsible for designing, deploying, and operating CI/CD pipelines, GKE, observability, and security controls to keep services reliable. You will drive IaC standards, improve autoscaling with metrics-based approaches, and collaborate across teams to build a robust, scalable platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
• GCP and production Kubernetes experience at scale.
• Strong IaC with Terraform; able to write, review, refactor.
• Solid observability: metrics, logs, alerting; on-call experiences.
• Security knowledge: IAM least-privilege, identity federation, secret management.
• CI/CD automation; pipelines in GitHub Actions; scripting.

Responsibilities

• Improve infrastructure reliability: own GKE workloads and shared platform layer; eliminate single points of failure.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines and harden shared workflows used by all teams.
• Build and operationalize observability: metrics, logs, alerting, dashboards; reduce noise.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code standards across environments; refine IaC quality.
• Improve event-driven autoscaling with workload-aware metrics (KEDA).
• Harden security posture: IAM least-privilege, federation, secret management, controls.
• Roll out data anonymization tooling for safe PR deployments and data replication.
• Collaborate across teams: architecture reviews and joint infra decisions.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

Observability

Terraform

CI/CD Automation

Security

Tools

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Prometheus

Kong

Cloudflare

Terraform

Job description

NewtonX, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure platform that powers multiple engineering teams.

You will be responsible for designing, deploying, and operating CI/CD pipelines, GKE, observability, and security controls to keep services reliable. You will drive IaC standards, improve autoscaling with metrics-based approaches, and collaborate across teams to build a robust, scalable platform.