IonQ
SeniorStaffDevOpsEngineer
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“Senior Staff DevOps Engineer at IonQ. Skills: CI/CD, DevOps, IaC, Security Scanning. Lead CI/CD pipeline strategy. Own deployment automation architecture”
What You'll Achieve.
Reduce deployment risk; Enable rapid rollback; Drive continuous improvement
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
Up to 25% travel
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5 years Pipeline Orchestration, 5 years Scripting Languages, 4 years Infrastructure-as-Code, 4 years Containerization
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus
What You'll Do.
Lead CI/CD pipeline strategy
Own deployment automation architecture
Manage release management
Implement GitOps practices
Own pipeline platform
Build shared pipeline libraries
Maintain infrastructure pipelines
Define deployment strategies
Minimize deployment risk
Enable rapid rollback
Own end-to-end release management
Define versioning strategies
Coordinate cross-service releases
Manage release trains
Make release go/no-go decisions
Enforce vulnerability gates
Conduct risk assessments
Review vulnerability scan results
Evaluate dependency risk
Confirm compliance posture
Validate rollback plan
Establish GitOps practices
Build self-service developer portals
Build environment provisioning tools
Build internal developer platforms
Enable self-service deployments
Enable self-service environment provisioning
Track SDLC health indicators
Report SDLC health indicators
Drive continuous improvement
Design agentic workflows
Build agentic workflows
Operate agentic workflows
Automate DevOps tasks
Automate pipeline failure triage
Automate dependency update orchestration
Automate environment provisioning
Automate release coordination
Automate intelligent deployment decision-making
Identify candidates for automation
Instrument deployments with observability
Configure SLO monitoring
Implement canary analysis
Implement automated rollback
Participate in incident response
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional team; Collaborate with Architecture; Collaborate with SRE; Work jointly with Security; Work with Security Operations
Process & Methodology
Agile, Scrum, Jira
Full Job Description
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role is based out of our Denver, CO office. We offer a hybrid work model, allowing for remote work a few days per week. Travel: Up to 25% Job ID: 1643 The Role: We are looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. You'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. In this role, you will be responsible for leading CI/CD pipeline strategy, deployment automation architecture, release management, and GitOps practices. This role owns the pipeline platform — shared libraries, templates, standards, and tooling — that enables all application teams and infrastructure services to build and deploy through self-service, while collaborating closely with Architecture on IaC sta
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