Junior DevOps Engineer

Oxford Quantum Circuits; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering quantum computing firm in Reading seeks a Junior DevOps Engineer to support the design, build, and maintenance of scalable infrastructure. This role involves collaborating with senior engineers and third-party vendors, automating deployment pipelines, and enhancing system security and performance. Ideal for those eager to learn and contribute to real-world projects, this position promises hands-on experience in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience debugging issues in both development and production.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to team or cross-functional environments through projects or internships.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of secure infrastructure.
• Assist with security audits and reviews.
• Automate deployment pipelines and monitor system performance.
• Collaborate to troubleshoot production and development issues.
• Build strong relationships with product and engineering teams.
• Maintain performance and security standards.

Skills

Debugging issues

Continuous integration pipelines

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Monitoring and logging

Job description

Overview

Junior DevOps Engineer

From enabling world-class researchers to supporting mission-critical deployments, your work will help with moving quantum computing from the lab to the real world. We’re looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer to join our growing Software Engineering team to support the design, build, and maintenance of robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure that supports our quantum computing platform.

As a Junior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be supporting the team in building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our quantum computing systems. You’ll contribute to the design and implementation of solutions, help with monitoring and maintaining systems, and contribute to security and compliance checks. Working closely with senior engineers and third-party vendors, you’ll gain hands-on experience and play a key role in supporting the foundations of a new computing era.

If you’re eager to learn and excited to start your career in solving complex problems at scale, this role is a great fit. You’ll be supported as you contribute to real-world projects, gaining experience across the full development lifecycle in a collaborative and high-trust environment. Working as part of a cross-functional team, you’ll have the chance to learn from experienced engineers while building your skills and growing into the role. As part of our growing software team - working for Tom Winchester (Head of DevOps) - you’ll be;

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the design and implementation of secure, scalable infrastructure to support our software systems and quantum platform
• Assisting with security audits and reviews — working with trusted third-party vendors
• Automating deployment pipelines, monitoring, and documenting to ensure reliability and efficiency across our systems with support from senior engineers
• Collaboratively troubleshooting production and development issues with a proactive mindset, ensuring systems are resilient and incidents are resolved effectively
• Building strong internal relationships by working closely with product, engineering and research teams to learn and understand infrastructure needs and challenges
• Maintaining high standards for performance and security in all deployments — and contributing to the systems that uphold them

Qualifications

You have hands-on experience debugging issues in both development and production. You’ve worked on existing codebases as well as new development projects, giving you exposure to different types of challenges. You’ve helped configure and deploy continuous integration pipelines and have gained experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and setting up monitoring and logging to support systems at scale.

We’d love to hear about any experience you’ve had working in team or cross-functional environments, whether through academic projects, internships, or commercial work. You’re someone who values clarity, stays curious when faced with ambiguity, and takes initiative to learn and contribute. Whether your background is in software, infrastructure, or systems, if you think like an engineer and are excited to help deliver reliable solutions, this is your chance to be part of building the quantum future, one system at a time.

Learn more

Learn more about our benefits and positive work culture here: https://oqc.tech/company/working-here/