IonQ

IonQ

Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

Denver, Colorado · Staff+ · Contract

Work authorization required$168k-$220kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role

  • We are looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team.
  • In this role, you will be responsible for leading CI/CD pipeline strategy, deployment automation architecture, release management, and GitOps practices.
  • As the primary owner of cross-service release coordination you will be working with Security to enforce vulnerability gates and risk assessments as part of every release cycle.

Responsibilities

  • Own the CI/CD pipeline platform: design, build, and maintain shared pipeline libraries, reusable templates, and standards that enable application teams to configure their own pipeline instances via self-service.
  • Maintain infrastructure-specific pipelines directly.
  • Define and implement deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling, feature flags) that minimize deployment risk and enable rapid rollback.
  • Own end-to-end release management for infrastructure and product services: define versioning strategies, coordinate cross-service releases, manage release trains, and make release go/no-go decisions in partnership with Security (vulnerability gate) and SRE (reliability readiness).
  • Establish and maintain GitOps practices using declarative infrastructure and application definitions stored in version control as the single source of truth.
  • Develop, test, and maintain IaC modules (OpenTofu modules, Terragrunt configurations, Packer templates, Ansible playbooks, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays) following patterns defined by Architecture.
  • Build and maintain self-service developer portals, environment provisioning tools, and internal developer platforms that enable developers to trigger deployments and provision environments without DevOps intervention.
  • identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
  • Design, build, and operate agentic workflows using AWS Agent Core to automate repetitive DevOps tasks including pipeline failure triage, dependency update orchestration, environment provisioning, release coordination, and intelligent deployment decision-making.
  • Instrument deployments with observability, configure SLO monitoring for pipelines, implement canary analysis and automated rollback, and participate in incident response.

Requirements

  • 5 years of hands-on expertise in Pipeline Orchestration (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and advanced Git workflows, including experience utilizing GitHub Actions OIDC and Workload Identity Federation.
  • 5 years of practical application in Scripting Languages (Python, Bash, Go).
  • 4 years of direct experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Packer, Ansible).
  • Technical proficiency integrating pipeline security scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA), container scanning, and IaC validation/testing (Trivy, native OpenTofu test frameworks).

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Kubernetes administrator or developer certification (CKA/CKAD).
  • Experience supporting Event Streaming Platforms (MSK/Kafka, IAM auth, TLS).
  • Experience with internal developer platforms (Backstage, Port).
  • Background in platform engineering at scale (100+ developers).
  • Experience with multi-environment promotion strategies.
  • Experience with SBOM generation (Syft, CycloneDX), Cosign artifact signing, and supply chain security.
  • Experience with AI Ops, intelligent automation, or agentic AI frameworks for operational tasks.

Skills

  • In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance.
  • IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

Compensation

  • Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available.

Benefits

  • Track and report on DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and SDLC health indicators using Jira for sprint velocity, backlog health, and cross-team dependency tracking
  • will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific
  • Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
  • Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.
  • We are committed to equity and justice.
  • office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • export control and government contract restrictions
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