Director of SRE

About

ID Quantique (IDQ) as part of IONQ, is a global leader in quantum-safe communications and quantum detection systems. We provide solutions to protect governments, telecommunication infrastructures, and banking & financial institutions from the “harvest-now, decrypt-later” threat, delivering both terrestrial and space-based quantum-safe networks in live operation globally. Our Quantum Detection Systems push the limits of single-photon detection, powering breakthroughs in quantum communication, sensing, computing, and ultra-sensitive imaging in partnership with top researchers and tech innovators worldwide.

The Role

We are looking for a Director of SRE. As a Director of SRE, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. In this role, you will build and lead SRE/DevOps organizations operating multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will be responsible for production ownership of availability, latency, incident response, and capacity management while implementing an SRE operating model using SLOs/SLIs and error budgets. Your leadership will bridge the gap between cloud infrastructure architecture and AI-ready operations to ensure a secure-by-default platform for our product teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead SRE/DevOps organizations operating multi-tenant SaaS at scale on AWS/Azure/GCP, including production ownership for availability, latency, incident response, DR, and capacity management.
• Architect cloud infrastructure focusing on networking (VPC/VNet, routing, private connectivity), compute, containers/orchestration, and data platforms.
• Implement SRE operating models using SLOs/SLIs and error budgets to balance reliability and delivery velocity.
• Drive CI/CD and release engineering leadership, ensuring safe progressive delivery (canary/blue-green), automated rollbacks, and measurable deployment health.
• Scale Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and platform automation through