IonQ

SeniorStaffDevOpsEngineer

$250–350k ~AI est. Denver, Colorado, United States Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“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.

Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

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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