Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Orchestration & Observability

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

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.