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The ideal candidate has a strong background in evaluating and mitigating security vulnerabilities across on-premises and AWS environments and will be hands-on in assessing, designing, implementing, and maintaining a robust security posture for all systems. This ensures QCI's infrastructure is secure, resilient, and capable of supporting our cutting-edge quantum computing platform.\r\nKey Responsibilities: Assess and mitigate security risks across QCI's on-premises and AWS environments, including securing in-house applications hosted on AWS.\r\nDevelop, implement, and maintain security policies, procedures, and best practices to safeguard systems, data, and QCI's quantum computing platform.\r\nEvaluate and enhance network security by auditing network devices and security appliances (e.g., SonicWall, Cisco, Juniper), identifying vulnerabilities, and recommending configurations. 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