6 days ago
Oxford, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Run and evolve Kubernetes platforms and software release processes for on-site quantum systems using k3s, ArgoCD, and Helm.
- Improve CI speed and reliability, including hardware-in-the-loop and FPGA build runners and build caches.
- Define dashboards and alerts as code and move quantum-system hardware observability onto the shared observability platform.
- Provide ready-to-use remote development environments for engineers and physicists working with quantum-system hardware.
- Maintain secure, recoverable, reproducible, and reviewable on-site and cloud infrastructure as code, including secrets, access, certificates, and identity.
- Lead strategic platform projects, make technical decisions, and write runbooks and guides for safe platform changes.
- Collaborate with physicists, lab technicians, firmware and software engineers, IT, product management, infrastructure, and production SRE teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability role running Linux systems in production.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, containerized production workloads, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and ideally GitHub Actions.
- Experience with production observability and security, including monitoring, alerting, secrets, and access control.
- Ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, storage, pipelines, and development environments and lead work from design through rollout.
- Proficiency in Python, shell, and OpenTofu; product-code experience with Rust and Python is relevant but the role focuses on build and test infrastructure.
- Experience with AI coding tools is helpful, and interest in quantum computing is welcome but not required.
- Ability to plan rollbacks, validate changes against real systems, and document technical learnings.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, IonQ stock options, and an annual performance bonus.
- Generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, and private medical and dental insurance for employees and their families.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
- Opportunities for career development alongside scientists, engineers, and industry leaders.
- The role is based in Oxford, England, UK, with a hybrid working pattern.
About IonQ
IonQ builds trapped-ion quantum computers and offers access to them via major cloud platforms and direct systems for enterprise and research users. The public company (NYSE: IONQ), founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, sells quantum hardware, cloud services, and development tools used in areas like materials modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Its systems are available through AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google Cloud Marketplace.