$125,000 - $187,000 USD yearly
Support quantum computing services and hardware-integrated systems.
About the role
D-Wave is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Operations, Security & Observability) to operate and improve hybrid infrastructure spanning AWS, on-premises environments, Kubernetes platforms, and software delivery pipelines. This role emphasizes platform operations and software delivery, security and infrastructure hardening, or monitoring and observability, supporting D-Wave’s quantum computing services and hardware-integrated systems.
What you'll do
- Own day-to-day support for AWS applications and shared infrastructure, resolving deployment, configuration, and runtime issues.
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and software release processes using tools such as GitHub Actions.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Bash.
- Strengthen security across AWS, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments through access controls, secrets management, hardening, and patching.
- Improve monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting using tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, and Grafana.
- Lead complex troubleshooting and incident resolution across applications and infrastructure, driving root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, systems engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- Substantial hands-on experience in one or more of the following: platform operations and software delivery, security and infrastructure hardening, or monitoring and observability.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Hands-on experience supporting and operating AWS infrastructure.
- Practical experience deploying and troubleshooting Docker and Kubernetes workloads.
- Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines and supporting software deployments.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or equivalent tools.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar languages for automation and troubleshooting.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, routing, firewalls, and TLS.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure security practices and monitoring and logging tools.
Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, observability
This role has been open 37 days — well below the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1022
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Median days open
53 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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| Metric | D-Wave | All employers we track in this specialty (1022 roles · 93 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 1022 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 16 | 6531 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 88 d | 53 d (+35 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, observability
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 335 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 55 open roles · median 61 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 38 open roles · median 24 d
- Arm Holdings · 37 open roles · median 11 d
How we counted: 1022 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.