Senior DevOps Engineer

Requirements

• The ideal candidate is someone who is a hands-on technical expert who writes pipeline code, builds and debugs deployment automation, develops IaC modules, configures and operates security scanning tooling within pipelines, and operates release tooling daily — driving success through execution, not delegation alone
• 5 years of hands‑on expertise in Pipeline Orchestration (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions) and advanced Git workflows, including experience utilizing Git Hub 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 (Open Tofu, Terragrunt, Packer, Ansible)
• 4 years of demonstrated background in Containerization (Docker, Buildah) and Kubernetes deployment/operations (EKS, Kyverno, Bottlerocket), alongside a proven track record with Git Ops practices (Flux, Helm) and artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, ECR/ACR/GAR)
• Technical proficiency integrating pipeline security scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA), container scanning, and IaC validation/testing (Trivy, native Open Tofu test frameworks)
• Established background implementing AI Ops and Agentic Frameworks, including AWS Agent Core and LLM‑based automation
• (Desirable) Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• (Desirable) Kubernetes administrator or developer certification (CKA/CKAD)
• (Desirable) Experience supporting Event Streaming Platforms (MSK/Kafka, IAM auth, TLS)
• (Desirable) Experience with internal developer platforms (Backstage, Port)
• (Desirable) Background in platform engineering at scale (100+ developers)
• (Desirable) Experience with multi‑environment promotion strategies
• (Desirable) Experience with SBOM generation (Syft, CycloneDX), Cosign artifact signing, and supply chain security
• (Desirable) Dev Sec Ops  pipeline design and vulnerability management at scale
• (Desirable) Experience with AI Ops, intelligent automation, or agentic AI frameworks for operational tasks
• (Desirable) Experience with AWS Agent Core or equivalent agentic orchestration platforms

• We are looking for a Senior Staff Dev Ops 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 Git Ops 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 standards and with SRE on deployment reliability
• The Senior Staff Dev Ops Engineer is a co‑owner of pipeline security and infrastructure security, overseeing responsibility for vulnerability management, artifact scanning, SAST, DAST, and SBOM generation within the CI/CD ecosystem, working jointly with the Senior Cloud Security Engineer on vulnerability program governance and with the Security Operations Engineer on scanning execution
• 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
• The Senior Staff Dev Ops Engineer continuously implements AI Ops practices, leveraging AWS Agent Core to design and deploy agentic workflows that automate repetitive pipeline operations, intelligent dependency management, and infrastructure provisioning tasks
• 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…