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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II)
Berkeley, CAOn-SiteTemporaryTechnology$80+/hrPosted 5 days ago
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II) | 100% Onsite | Berkeley, CA | $80/hr | 1-Year Contract
Important Notes:
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II) to support Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). As part of a 24x7 operations team, you'll help maintain the reliability and performance of critical high-performance computing infrastructure that supports scientific research and discovery.
This role is ideal for an operations-focused engineer with strong Linux systems administration, monitoring/observability, production troubleshooting, and automation experience who is comfortable supporting a mission-critical environment.
What You'll Do:
Qualifications:
Required
Important Notes:
- Permanent overnight schedule of midnight to 8:00 a.m., Monday through Friday
- 100% onsite in Berkeley, California
- Candidates must be available for the full Owl shift schedule; there is no day or split-shift option
- No planned time off in November or December
- U.S. Citizens only
- No third-party agencies, Corp-to-Corp (C2C), or subcontracting arrangements
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II) to support Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). As part of a 24x7 operations team, you'll help maintain the reliability and performance of critical high-performance computing infrastructure that supports scientific research and discovery.
This role is ideal for an operations-focused engineer with strong Linux systems administration, monitoring/observability, production troubleshooting, and automation experience who is comfortable supporting a mission-critical environment.
What You'll Do:
- Monitor computing, storage, network, and facility systems
- Review and respond to production alerts and incidents
- Troubleshoot issues across Linux, applications, storage, networking, and infrastructure
- Develop and maintain automation, monitoring, and alerting solutions
- Build tools and integrations that support operational workflows
- Support incident management and documentation through ServiceNow
- Assist with system patching, security vulnerabilities, and operational maintenance
- Collaborate across technical teams to improve system reliability
- Perform periodic data center walkthroughs to verify environmental, cooling, and power systems
Qualifications:
Required
- Experience supporting Linux-based production systems in a 24x7 operations, SRE, NOC, data center, or similar environment
- Strong Linux systems administration and command-line experience
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools
- Experience troubleshooting production issues from alert through resolution
- Working knowledge of storage and basic networking concepts
- Familiarity with CVE/security vulnerability patching
- Experience developing tools or automation using Python, Perl, Java, C, C++, Bash, or similar
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, NOC, Systems Administration, or Infrastructure Operations
- ServiceNow experience
- Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, or similar monitoring platforms
- Familiarity with ITSM best practices
- Experience supporting HPC, research computing, scientific computing, or other mission-critical environments
- Experience developing automation tools; AI-driven automation experience is a plus
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