Research DevOps Engineer, Software, Center for Quantum Computing

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists engineers and technicians on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer.

We are looking to hire a Research DevOps Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing calibrating and operating novel quantum devices. The ideal candidate will be able to translate high-level science requirements into DevOps deliverables (e.g. CI/CD scripts hybrid infrastructure-as-code setups standardized development environments artifact repositories etc.) that are performant scalable and secure. This requires someone who (1) has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers and (2) demonstrates ownership in initiating and driving projects to completion. As a Research DevOps Engineer this role has a particular emphasis accelerating the research software development lifecycle at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing through automation standardization and managing hybrid (cloud physical lab) infrastructure.

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Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include some combination of the following:

- Design and maintain standardized reproducible development environments for research scientists.
- Own dependency build and release management across interdependent research software projects.
- Develop and streamline CI/CD pipelines for low-overhead automated testing and rapid deployment.
- Manage hybrid infrastructure spanning cloud services and on-prem physical hardware.
- Automate provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code solutions (e.g. Docker AWS CDK).
- Maintain Amazons high security bar without slowing down the pace of internal development.
- Implement best practices for observability and monitoring to enable rapid debugging and high service uptime.
- Empower others to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles a bias for action superior problem-solving and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a DevOps engineer embedded in a research organization you will have the opportunity to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation.


A day in the life
The majority of your time will be spent on projects that accelerate the development of our internal research software stack. This requires working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against time-to-delivery. Once a design proposal has been reviewed and accepted youll drive implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth roll out. Because many high-level experimental goals have cross-cutting requirements youll often work closely with other engineers or scientists or on the team.

About the team
You will be joining the software team within the AWS Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of scientists and engineers who are building scalable software that enables quantum computing technologies.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with using infrastructure-as-code to design and deploy cloud services
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning design implementation testing deployment and maintenance)

- Experience working with scientists in a research environment
- Experience with AWS tools and services (e.g. CDK)
- Experience with DevSecOps features in GitLab Ultimate
- Experience setting up standardized reproducible Python environments
- Experience with AWS on-prem hardware solutions (e.g. Outpost)
- Experience with networking and network security fundamentals
- Experience with Kubernetes or high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure
- Experience in experimental physics or quantum computing

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