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Operations Engineer - Quantum Software

Quantinuum
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7 months ago
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Quantinuum is seeking to hire an Operations Engineer for our Cambridge-based cloud platform, Quantinuum Nexus. Our team aims to support the effort of quantum researchers at every stage of an experiment, making working on quantum computers as easy as sending an email.
The successful candidate will have experience producing high quality technical documentation, including runbooks for disaster recovery and other critical incidents. Working alongside the team to develop processes and best practice to best support Nexus. This is an opportunity to be the first member of a new team that's being built out to offer support for the cloud-based software products at Quantinuum. In the Nexus developer team, we aim to hire more operations engineers in the future and by being the first member, you'll have a lot of influence on the direction of the team. Training will be provided to ensure you get up to speed quickly and understand the platform.
In this role, you'll help ensure that our Nexus platform delivers the highest possible performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. You'll apply your technical expertise to continuously improve the system and work on detecting issues before they become outages. When issues do arise, you'll be on the front line, reviewing and answering support requests from customers and correlating them to technical information and metrics. The ideal candidate will have experience with collecting traces and metrics via OpenTelemetry and making those available through AWS products like x-ray and CloudWatch.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Professional experience working with Python.
  • Experience using monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch to locate issues and bottlenecks.
  • Experience improving declarative Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) configurations to ensure up-time and reliability.
  • Experienced with Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Be able to commit to a changeable work schedule that might include some odd hours.

It would be desirable to have:

  • Experience working in a continuous deployment environment.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL metrics, query planning and schema design.
  • Familiarity with the OpenTelemetry standard and SDKs.
What is in it for you?
Working alongside a highly talented team, with leading names in the quantum computing industry. We offer a highly competitive package, equity, 28 days of paid holiday (in addition to public holidays), a workplace pension, a positive approach to flexible working and enhanced parental and adoption benefits.

About Us:
Science Led, Enterprise Driven – Accelerating Quantum Computing
Quantinuum is the world's largest integrated quantum company, pioneering powerful quantum computers and advanced software solutions. Quantinuum's technology drives breakthroughs in materials discovery, cybersecurity, and next-gen quantum AI. With approximately 500 employees, including 370+ scientists and engineers, Quantinuum leads the quantum computing revolution across continents.

Quantinuum recently secured $300m in funding, visit our news pages to learn more about this and other Quantinuum scientific breakthroughs and achievements:https://www.quantinuum.com/news

Please note that employment with us is subject to successfully passing our pre-employment screening checks. We are an inclusive equal opportunity employer. You will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.



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