Hiring: Staff DevOps Engineer Company: IonQ Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 14:56:16 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Embedded Systems, Infrastructure as Code, LLM, SBOM, SaaS About the job Experience: •8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work. Required Skills: •The DevOps discipline owns the "software factory" — the end-to-end system that takes code from commit to production securely, reliably, and fast, with security embedded into every stage. •The shared build, test, scan, sign, and deploy platform, with reusable templates and golden-path standards. •Scanning strategy, security gates, risk thresholds, and automated go/no-go decisioning. •The release train (versioning, environment promotion), the release gate with risk assessment, and an expedited, still-gated hotfix pipeline for emergency production changes. •Dependency management and supply-chain security •Dependency health, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, artifact signing, and provenance. •Internal developer platform •Self-service environment provisioning, onboarding, documentation, and the developer support model. Qualifications: •Hands-on, recent experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale. •Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner — has personally configured scanning and driven a real vulnerability to closure within a deadline. •Infrastructure-as-Code authored and tested, with production modules to show, not only consumed. •Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes with measurable results. •Scripting and automation fluency, with a clear bias toward removing manual toil. •Supply-chain security depth (signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA). •Internal developer platform or self-service design, measured by adoption. •Release-gate or release-train ownership, including expedited or emergency-change delivery under pressure. •Agentic delivery automation (AWS Agent Core or equivalent) and AI or LLM security practice. •The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. Compensation: •The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!