About the role
📍 Hybrid — Berkeley, CA 📅 1 Year Contract Assignment with possibility of extension based on performance and organizational needs. 💰 $80/hr
Ever wondered what powers breakthrough research in energy, physics, materials science, and chemistry? You're looking at it. This national HPC facility supports 11,000+ scientists pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and we need a sharp, self-motivated SRE to help keep that engine running without interruption.
If you love solving real problems on live infrastructure, thrive on ownership, and want your work to directly enable world-class science, this is your seat.
What You'll Own * Monitor and triage alerts across compute, storage, network, and facility systems in real time * Build automation that prevents issues before they become outages * Develop new tools and integrations across the monitoring pipeline (APIs → alerts → action) * Walk the data center floor to keep power, cooling, and environmental systems humming * Coordinate maintenance activities across teams and keep incidents accurately tracked * Dig into complex, ambiguous problems and drive them to resolution
What You Bring * Comfort working Owl shift (12am–8am), 5 days/week, hybrid onsite in Berkeley, CA * Solid Linux/command-line (SSH) chops * Programming/scripting experience: Python, C, C++, Perl, or Java * A self-starter mindset, eager to pick up Kubernetes, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, and building management/cooling systems * Network security fundamentals (ACLs, firewalls) * Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
Nice to Have * Experience building or deploying Agentic AI / autonomous automation for technical workflows * ServiceNow implementation experience * ITSM best-practice know-how