Jobs / IonQ

Staff Platform Engineer

IonQ · Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom
Oxford, ENG, United KingdomExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive salary, stock options, annual performance bonus, annual leave, medical and dental insurance, matching 401(k), paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and home technology stipend
Location
Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Lead the platform infrastructure that engineering and science teams use to build, test, and deliver quantum systems across on-site facilities and cloud environments. The role applies DevSecOps practices to Kubernetes clusters and release workflows, CI/CD, observability, remote development environments, and secure infrastructure as code, using technologies including k3s, ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenTofu, and Atmos.

Benefits

Stock optionsAnnual performance bonusAnnual leaveFlexible hybrid workingPrivate medical and dental insuranceMatching 401(k)Paid holidaysParental and adoption leaveLegal insuranceHome technology stipendCareer development opportunities

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years in a Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability role running Linux systems in production
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or OpenTofu
  • Production experience running containerized workloads on Kubernetes
  • Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions
  • Experience with production monitoring, alerting, secrets management, and access control
  • Ability to lead work from design through rollout

Responsibilities

  • Operate and evolve Kubernetes platforms and software release processes for quantum systems
  • Improve CI speed and reliability, including hardware-in-the-loop and FPGA build workflows
  • Develop dashboards and alerts as code for quantum system hardware and integrate them with shared observability services
  • Provide ready-to-use remote development environments for engineers and physicists
  • Secure and maintain recoverable, reproducible, reviewable on-site and cloud infrastructure as code
  • Lead platform technical decisions and strategic projects
  • Write runbooks and guides that help teams safely maintain the platform
  • Work with engineering, science, IT, product, and SRE teams to identify and resolve platform problems

Skills

Argo CDAWSBashGitHubGitHub ActionsGrafanaHelmK3sKubernetesLinuxMakeOpenTelemetryOpenTofuPythonRustTempoTerraform

Languages

PythonShellRust

Industry

Quantum computing

Relocation

No