SOC Analyst

Quantum is now, and it's built here.

Using our world-leading trapped-ion technology, we’re building the most powerful, accurate and reliable quantum systems to tackle problems that today’s supercomputers cannot solve. Joining means becoming part of a global IonQ team that is transforming the future of quantum technology - faster, at scale, and with real world impact.

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum company delivering solutions to solve the world’s most complex problems. IonQ’s newest generation quantum computers, IonQ Tempo and IonQ Forte Enterprise, are the latest in cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners such as Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results. The company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance in 2025.

The company is accelerating its technology roadmap and intends to deliver the world’s most powerful quantum computers with 2 million qubits by 2030 to accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. IonQ’s advancements in quantum networking position the company as a leader in building the quantum internet.

What to Expect:

We are looking for a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst to join our Security team at Oxford Ionics, part of IonQ. In this role, you will be responsible for strengthening the end to end detection and response capability across the business, with a particular focus on Oxford Ionics data, systems and regional security operations needs. You will contribute to the team’s mission of building a more mature, responsive and effective security function that can protect a fast moving deep-tech environment.

You will play an important part in shaping the monitoring, investigation and response capabilities that support our work in building the world’s most advanced quantum systems. This is a hands-on role for someone who can quickly embed into the environment, work confidently across incidents and tooling, and proactively make the security operation stronger over time.

What You'll be Doing:

In this position, you will work across the full lifecycle of security operations, from alert triage and investigation through to incident response, containment and continuous improvement. You will partner closely with the wider US SOC function, while acting as a key point of ownership for Oxford Ionics systems and data, ensuring that incidents are understood, handled effectively and followed through properly.

You will also help improve how the environment is monitored and defended by contributing to Splunk content, detection logic, playbooks and workflows. This role suits someone who is equally comfortable investigating live security issues and making practical improvements to the systems, tooling and processes behind them.

Key responsibilities include:

• Investigate, triage and respond to security alerts and incidents across endpoint, network, cloud and identity environments
• Act as a regional security operations partner for Oxford Ionics, working closely with the US SOC and local stakeholders on escalations and follow-through
• Use Splunk and other security tooling to analyse logs, correlate events, identify root cause and assess scope and impact
• Execute or coordinate containment, remediation and recovery actions with sound judgement and clear documentation
• Improve detections, playbooks, workflows and security processes to strengthen the overall effectiveness of the SOC function