DevOps Engineer

QuantumGate is a startup within VentureOne, supported by the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) and its research arm, the Technology Innovation Institute (TII). We specialize in developing and commercializing advanced post-quantum cryptographic solutions, with a mission to secure enterprise digital environments through cutting-edge protocols and applications that tackle the challenges of the post-quantum era.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure and delivery platform that powers our Cryptography Discovery Tool (CDT), a continuous monitoring solution that integrates into enterprise environments using sensors to inventory crypto assets and surface weaknesses across enterprise networks. You will own IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes operations, observability, and baseline security controls to ensure CDT can be deployed and upgraded safely across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including hybrid/on-prem setups.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins / Azure DevOps).
• Implement safe change workflows (plan/apply gates, approvals, state management, drift detection).
• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Automate builds, tests, packaging, security scans, and deployments.
• Implement safe deployment strategies (rolling, canary, blue/green) and fast rollback paths.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters (managed or self-hosted) and platform components (Ingress, DNS, certs, storage, autoscaling).
• Operate and validate CDT’s internal observability features (dashboards, reports, health views).
• Define and improve reliability practices: SLOs/SLIs, incident response, backup, disaster recovery, postmortems, runbooks.
• Drive measurable improvements to uptime, latency, MTTR, and deployment reliability.
• Integrate security into delivery: SAST/DAST, dependency and container scanning.

Requirements:

• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Shell, or Ruby.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation and safe change practices (state, drift, review gates).
• Solid understanding of version control systems, preferably Git.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g. Jenkins).
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Monitoring and logging tools experience, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.
• Knowledge of security best practices for infrastructure and application deployment.
• Strong hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation)
• Strong hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Solid Linux fundamentals and operational debugging (logs, processes, networking, resource constraints).
• Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, load balancing, firewalls/security groups, VPC/VNet concepts.
• Comfortable collaborating with developers and documenting “how we run things” (runbooks, playbooks, standards).

Nice to have:

• Security hygiene mindset: secrets management, least privilege, and secure-by-default practices.
• Experience with “sensor/agent” style deployments and data ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with enterprise security ecosystems (SIEM/SOAR integrations), and hardening in constrained environments.
• Exposure to crypto posture topics (TLS/SSH/IPsec configuration, certificate inventory, weak algorithms/ciphers) — CDT’s sensors look specifically at these layers.
• Policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno), GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), OpenTelemetry.

Join QuantumGate as we pioneer innovative solutions to secure the future of digital technology and protect tomorrow’s digital society.