About ID Quantique
ID Quantique (IDQ), a part of IONQ, is a global leader in quantum-safe communications and quantum detection systems. Our solutions are designed to safeguard governments, telecommunication infrastructures, and banking and financial institutions against the “harvest-now, decrypt-later” threat. We deliver both terrestrial and space-based quantum-safe networks operating globally. Our Quantum Detection Systems push the boundaries of single-photon detection, enabling breakthroughs in quantum communication, sensing, computing, and ultra-sensitive imaging through partnerships with top researchers and technology innovators worldwide.
The Role
We are seeking a Director of SRE to join our cross-functional team, dedicated to leading IonQ on its mission to build the world's best quantum computers and address the globe's most complex challenges.
In this role, you will establish and lead SRE/DevOps organizations managing multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will take responsibility for production ownership, overseeing availability, latency, incident response, and capacity management while implementing an SRE operating model leveraging SLOs/SLIs and error budgets. Your leadership will integrate cloud infrastructure architecture and AI-ready operations, ensuring a secure-by-default platform for our product teams.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead SRE/DevOps organizations managing multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS/Azure/GCP, ensuring production ownership for availability, latency, incident response, disaster recovery (DR), and capacity management.
- Architect cloud infrastructure with a focus on networking (VPC/VNet, routing, private connectivity), compute, containers/orchestration, and data platforms.
- Implement SRE operating models employing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets to balance reliability with delivery velocity.
- Drive CI/CD and release engineering leadership, ensuring safe progressive delivery methods (canary/blue-green), automated rollbacks, and measurable deployment health.
- Scale Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and platform automation via "golden pipelines," standardized modules, and secure-by-default guardrails.
- Lead cross-functional execution across Product, Engineering, Security, Support, and Customer Success while establishing clear ownership boundaries.
- Oversee organizational planning, including hiring, team structure, on-call models, budget management, and vendor strategy.
- Foster a culture of operational excellence through blameless postmortems, corrective action tracking, and toil reduction.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of experience in building and leading SRE/DevOps organizations managing multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- In-depth technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure architecture, networking, containers, and secure-by-default platform guardrails.
- Demonstrated ability to manage production for global enterprise or federal customer bases, including considerations for tenant isolation and data residency.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI-ready operations geared towards networking SaaS, including streaming telemetry pipelines and closed-loop automation.
- Familiarity with Juniper Mist AI or similar large-scale networking SaaS platforms is a strong advantage.
- Understanding of AI-native networking concepts, such as service-level expectations (SLEs) and proactive anomaly detection.
- Security and resilience mindset aligned with Zero Trust designs and continuous telemetry policy enforcement.
- Hands-on experience operating SaaS products in networking/security domains where customer impact correlates with network behavior.
- Proficient communication skills to effectively present SLO posture, incident learnings, and risks to leadership.
What We Offer
- A position at one of the fastest-growing and most innovative quantum companies in the world.
- A competitive compensation package, inclusive of benefits and equity plans designed to reward excellence.
- Flexible work models allowing you to harmonize your work, family, and personal life.
- Continuous training and development opportunities to sharpen your skills and facilitate your growth.
- A tailored career development plan within the IonQ group’s companies.
- A dynamic, close-knit environment where collaboration is encouraged with a global team of experts.
- A performance-driven culture rooted in trust, teamwork, and shared ambition.
Apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
ID Quantique/IonQ is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.