Site Reliability Engineer

This is an opportunity for a software professional to take a key role in ensuring seamless and reliable access to our Quantum Computers for a global audience. This role would be an ideal opportunity for someone with a strong Linux system administration or DevOps background to make the move into their first Site Reliability Engineer role.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic and supportive team and be empowered to design & develop new tools and automation processes that streamline operations and enhance system reliability in one of the most cutting edge areas of the technology sector.

This is not a 9-5 role and will require the post holder to be part of an on-call rota to ensure we provide 24hr support.

Remuneration + Benefits

• £60-70k per annum
• Private medical insurance
• Group life and group income protection
• Gym and wellness benefits
• EAP cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Pension
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Hybrid working

Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be focusing on building and operating reliable systems and services that ensure high availability, resilience, and scalability for our global network for Quantum Computers. You will also be responsible for monitoring, diagnosing and controlling distributed production environments to avoid manual intervention, while ensuring compliance with high security standards and regulations.

In this role you will solve complex problems related to infrastructure, cloud services & quantum compilation processes, also build automation to improve operational consistency, reduce time-to-respond/repair, and prevent problem recurrences. You will actively improve our operation capabilities and hot-fix issues autonomously wherever possible and be part of a support-system, enabling round-the-clock highly responsive support. Experience with and willingness to coordinate incident response, facilitate post-incident activities, implement issue mitigation, and the ability to define and improve related policies would really set you apart. You will build an outstanding code-level knowledge of all our production products and will be able to work in and out of these teams, steering these products for observability and reliable operations.

This role would be suited either to someone with SRE experience or an experienced Devops / Cloud engineer interested in moving into an SRE role.

• Ensuring high security standards
• Maintain scalability and availability of our QCaaS system
• Improving technical readiness levels
• Be active on development teams
• Building and maintaining operation systems
• Monitoring and diagnosing issues
• Testing software in development (including destructive testing)
• Performing roll-backs of software when issues arise.
• Solve complex problems related to infrastructure, cloud services & quantum compilation processes
• Facilitate and improve processes for incident response and mitigation

Required Skills and experience

• DevOps engineering experience
• Software Developer/ Engineering experience
• Maintenance of cloud infrastructure
• Relevant commercial experience
• Experience in Docker/Kubernetes and Azure/AWS
• Strong knowledge of GitHub CI/CD process for Python applications
• Strong knowledge database such as Postgres and PL/SQL
• Proficient with commonly used networking protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP
• Technical communicator
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Autonomous worker, with the confidence to take on tasks when the rest of the team is unavailable e.g. outside office hours
• Experience in automation of testing and in monitoring and alerting tools based on Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Good experience with incident management and remediation, and follow-up activities such as runbook curation. Familiarity with related technologies such as Atlassian OpsGenie would be even better
• Team player

Desired Skills

• Experience managing on-prem environments would be highly beneficial
• Experience of on-call positions
• Degree in related field (Computing, numerical, scientific)

Research has shown that women are less likely than men to apply for this role if they do not have solid experience in 100% of these areas. Please know that this list is indicative and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel you only are a 75% match. Skills can be learnt, diversity cannot.

Our Company

At OQC, we see a brighter future for all, enabled by quantum.

Together we are pioneering cutting-edge quantum computers that unlock transformative discoveries, from advancing drug modelling to revolutionising battery technology. Our mission is to put quantum in the hands of humanity, empowering customers to discover new commercial and scientific frontiers.

When you join OQC, you become part of a diverse team of innovators, creators, and problem solvers. We bring together some of the brightest minds in quantum physics, nanotechnologies, hardware, software and commercial operations. Each team member brings a unique skill set and are united by our values, which guide us in everything we do - how we work, how we collaborate and how we shape the future of our industry.

Are you ready to help us build this future?

APPLY NOW!

Please use the link provided to apply for the role of Site Reliability Engineer. To aid your application, it will be beneficial to provide us with a cover letter outlining why you think you would be a good fit for the role and what attracts you to OQC. We look forward to hearing from you!

At OQC we are not just hoping you’ll fit in our culture. We aspire to thrive, as a company and as people, thanks to your diversity of thought and background. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing our team members with a work environment free from discrimination, where everyone is treated with respect. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, talent and merit and all our colleagues share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to diversity. We look forward to meeting you!