Senior DevOps Engineer for Quantum Infra & Hybrid Cloud

Oxford Ionics; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Annual performance bonus

Private medical and dental insurance

Generous annual leave

Flexible hybrid working

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Oxford Ionics is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team, building and operating the infrastructure that powers our quantum systems. You’ll work in a hybrid cloud/on‑premise setup, automating provisioning, deployments, and observability for air‑gapped and connected environments.

You’ll apply IaC and CI/CD best practices using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and GitHub Actions, maintain OpenTelemetry/Grafana monitoring, and partner with software, IT and science teams to scale secure

Qualifications

• Solid DevOps/SRE background with infrastructure automation experience.
• Experience administering Linux systems (Ubuntu preferred).
• Understanding of security, credential management, observability and compliance best practices.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure commissioning and configuration management across quantum systems.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and self-hosted runners.
• Implement and manage observability, OpenTelemetry collectors, and Grafana dashboards.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Docker / Podman

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Packer

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Oxford Ionics is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team, building and operating the infrastructure that powers our quantum systems. You’ll work in a hybrid cloud/on‑premise setup, automating provisioning, deployments, and observability for air‑gapped and connected environments.

You’ll apply IaC and CI/CD best practices using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and GitHub Actions, maintain OpenTelemetry/Grafana monitoring, and partner with software, IT and science teams to scale secure