Senior DevOps

Nord Quantique; Sherbrooke; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nord Quantique in Sherbrooke, QC, is seeking a Senior DevOps to join the Infrastructure & Operations team, working across software, infrastructure, and reliability to scale and secure our quantum computing platform.

You will design and maintain infrastructure, contribute to orchestration and deployment systems, and build tooling for reliability and observability in a cloud/HPC environment. Strong teamwork and communication, plus a background in distributed systems, are essential.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing or operating software systems in an R&D, cloud, infrastructure, or technically ambitious environment.
• Experience working with distributed systems, operational infrastructure, or production software platforms.
• Experience working in interdisciplinary environments involving close collaboration between software, infrastructure, and technical teams.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive complex technical initiatives.
• Ability to promote operational best practices through collaboration, pragmatism, and technical leadership across teams.
• Strong judgment in balancing operational rigor with the flexibility required in an interdisciplinary R&D environment.
• Commitment to software quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure and operational systems supporting Nord Quantique’s software platform.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of orchestration, deployment, and operational management systems.
• Develop tooling and workflows supporting reliability, observability, security, and operational safety.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure management, HPC integration, deployment automation, and operational monitoring.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to support secure and reliable access to computational and experimental resources.
• Contribute to software quality through architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, debugging, and operational best practices.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Orchestration

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Security

English (advanced)

French (intermediate)

Education

BSc or MSc in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior DevOps at Nord Quantique, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. A senior-level full time position in the Engineering team, listed under software engineering.

Our current needs

Nord Quantique is developing the software platform and operational infrastructure required to run increasingly complex quantum computing systems at scale. As our systems evolve, reliability, observability, security, and operational automation become critical to both internal R&D and future production environments. We are seeking a senior software developer to join our Infrastructure & Operations team. This team develops and operates the foundational infrastructure, orchestration systems, and operational services that support experimental systems, simulation backends, and cloud-accessible quantum computing workflows. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and operational reliability. The successful candidate will help design and evolve the systems that ensure Nord Quantique’s software platform remains scalable, observable, secure, and operationally robust in a highly dynamic R&D environment.

Sought expertise and knowledge

• Strong software development skills in at least one modern systems or infrastructure programming language such as Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems, orchestration frameworks, or operational automation.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, CI/CD workflows, or infrastructure management.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
• Familiarity with security, access control, or operational safety considerations in shared computing environments.
• Experience with HPC systems, cluster management, or large-scale computational infrastructure is considered an asset.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, or secure partner-facing APIs is considered an asset.
• Advanced level in English, to communicate with international team members
• Intermediate knowledge of French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure and operational systems supporting Nord Quantique’s software platform.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of orchestration, deployment, and operational management systems.
• Develop tooling and workflows supporting reliability, observability, security, and operational safety.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure management, HPC integration, deployment automation, and operational monitoring.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to support secure and reliable access to computational and experimental resources.
• Contribute to software quality through architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, debugging, and operational best practices.

Requirements

• BSc or MSc in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing or operating software systems in an R&D, cloud, infrastructure, or technically ambitious environment.
• Experience working with distributed systems, operational infrastructure, or production software platforms.
• Experience working in interdisciplinary environments involving close collaboration between software, infrastructure, and technical teams.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive complex technical initiatives.
• Ability to promote operational best practices through collaboration, pragmatism, and technical leadership across teams.
• Strong judgment in balancing operational rigor with the flexibility required in an interdisciplinary R&D environment.
• Commitment to software quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.