Job Security Engineer, Sydney

About usFounded in 2017, Q-CTRL has grown to become the global leader in quantum. We’re using control to solve the hardest problems facing quantum technology, improving hardware performance and accelerating pathways to useful quantum computers and other technologies. As a product-led company, we bring together diverse teams such as product, design, engineering and research to help achieve our mission of making quantum technology useful. Join us to help shape the quantum future.
As one of the fastest growing companies in the quantum sector, we’ve had a number of key milestones:
- In November 2023, we announced an industry-first partnership with IBM Quantum Services, natively integrating our performance management software with all IBM quantum computers. Building off of this relationship, in September 2024 we started offering two services via IBM’s new Qiskit Functions Catalog as an inaugural partner.- Designed and moved our Global HQ offices and lab space into the first purpose-built (and award winning) commercial and research facility for a quantum technology company in Australia.- Continued to deliver real world outcomes across the quantum sectors, with our work with Australian Defence on software-ruggedized quantum sensing for navigation without GPS, as featured in the New York Times.- In October 2024, we announced our record breaking expansion of our Series B funding round to USD $113M, with $59M USD of new capital.- Grew our global presence to include Los Angeles, Berlin, and Oxford - as well as the recently announced office in San Francisco.
From educating the workforce on how quantum computing works, to building the next generation of quantum sensors, to delivering massive performance gains for end-users, it all starts with hiring the right talent. If you want to help us build the Quantum future, read on.
About the roleThe Q-CTRL Platform has grown rapidly; from a single product running as a single container to a growing list of products in a highly distributed Kubernetes environment. New and exciting customer opportunities are seeing this stack evolve further; including on-premise and hybrid architectures as well as full-stack solutions embedded on the edge.
Q-CTRL faces a diverse and dynamic security landscape which is shaped by industry, customer, and compliance requirements. The Q-CTRL Infrastructure team is expanding to bring on a Security Engineer with a focus on designing, implementing and maintaining security systems in order to fulfil the Q-CTRL Security Objectives.What you'll be doing:

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure, you’ll play a key role in building security systems that ensure we deliver the highest security standards for Q-CTRL products and maintain the trust our customers place in us.
• Strengthening the security of the Q-CTRL Platform through contribution to key systems like cloud networking, Zero Trust Network architectures, and firewalls.
• Consistently upholding compliance with security frameworks and customer engagements through the improvement of systems and processes. This includes access control mechanisms, data management and security guardrails.
• Applying knowledge in Forensics & Incident Response and champion the Incident Response process to triage incidents and raise alerts based on observability.
• Maintaining our vulnerability management systems in order to improve key security metrics for Q-CTRL.
• Other duties within the Employee's skills and experience, or with reasonable training.

Ideally you'll have:

• Knowledge of operating Kubernetes in production; managing helm charts/operators, security configurations and hardening workloads.
• Cloud networking experience, including knowledge of ZTNA & secure network access.
• Experience with firewall technologies, both at a cloud and application level.
• Experience maintaining a vulnerability management system, including delivery of threat modelling and risk register engagements.
• Experience working with SIEM/SOC tooling such as Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel to identify and triage security alerts.
• Experience using open-source observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry and Grafana to set up security alerting and alarms.

It would be fantastic if you have these skills/experience but not essential:

• Security/Kubernetes certifications, for example, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist or Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP).
• Red teaming experience, particularly in regards to cloud or AWS environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes runtime security tooling such as Falco or Sysdig.

Why Q-CTRL?
Flexibility: We embrace workplace flexibility so you worry more about your impact vs a rigid work schedule.Attractive salary: You’ll get to have the start-up impact without the start-up wages.Equity: We want people to have a sense of ownership in what they do and offer the potential for equity share and annual bonuses.Cash bonus: We recognize exceptional performance and impact by offering annual discretionary cash bonuses. Resources: We are well funded by the world’s best technology investors, letting us chase our ambitions with minimal constraints.Parental support: We offer paid parental leave to support you and your loved ones.Diversity: We’re an equal opportunity employer and actively support initiatives like the ‘Global Women in Quantum’ program to help expand the quantum workforce. Unique culture: You’ll be surrounded by some of the world’s leading physicists, engineers, product, marketing and design people (to name a few!) with a strong desire to learn and transfer knowledge.Meaningful values: You’ll work with an incredibly supportive team who work consistently to deliver our core values to be real, be trusted, be just and to be revered. Personal development: We provide you with a personal development and wellness budget. Make a dent: Last but not least you’ll have the unique opportunity to help set the direction for this revolutionary technology and truly make an impact that matters!
Q-CTRL aims to bring together cross-functional teams from many different backgrounds to help achieve our goals - we strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements mentioned in the job posting.
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