Senior Staff DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

SandboxAQ; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 161,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to develop cybersecurity infrastructure. The successful candidate will work with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, creating scalable solutions in collaboration with a diverse team. This role offers competitive compensation and includes additional benefits like medical plans and PTO.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Stock options

Generous learning opportunities

Medical/dental/vision insurance

PTO (summer and winter breaks)

Qualifications

• Strong experience in AWS infrastructure management.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for workload management.
• Ability to define infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams to integrate research into new products.
• Develop tools for various deployments and maintain environments.
• Design scalable and fault-tolerant architecture.

Skills

AWS infrastructure management

Docker orchestration

Kubernetes orchestration

Terraform

Scripting languages

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems

IT security best practices

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Kafka

Job description

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.

We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.

At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.

About The Role

The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to help functionalize AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management already launching globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies.

We’re looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure engineer to help deliver the next generation of cybersecurity systems. A successful candidate will be comfortable designing and maintaining both on-premise and cloud infrastructure, including local development environments and full CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of information security best practices will be considered a plus. The candidate will be working closely with a diverse team consisting of cryptographers, mathematicians, ML experts, and physicists, where they will be collaborating together in delivering novel solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Work with teams of developers and cryptographers to integrate their research advancements into new products
• Develop and maintain tooling for interacting with the various deployments, set up local development environment, and maintain a complex code base
• Work across on-premise, cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures to deliver fully functional products
• Design scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for cloud deployments
• Ensure high-quality deliverables by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and concise documentation

Who You Are

• Strong experience using, building, and maintaining infrastructure in AWS
• Strong experience managing and orchestrating workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience defining infrastructure and processes as a code through Terraform, and managing CI systems
• Strong experience with a few scripting languages
• Expertise building large-scale distributed systems
• Ability to containerize and automate deployments and tests using CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work in a small team/rapid prototyping environment and deal with uncertainty and fluidity
• Understanding of standard IT security best practices

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
• Knowledge of security-related concepts and technologies
• Familiarity with Bazel
• Familiarity with streaming frameworks, especially Kafka and Kstreams

The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $217K - $304K per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.

SandboxAQ welcomes all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where we have zero tolerance for discrimination. We invest in our employees\' personal and professional growth. Once you work with us, you can’t go back to normalcy because great breakthroughs come from great teams and we are the best in AI and quantum technology.

We offer competitive salaries, stock options depending on employment type, generous learning opportunities, medical/dental/vision, family planning/fertility, PTO (summer and winter breaks), financial wellness resources, 401(k) plans, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.