Site Reliability Engineer

SRE Opportunity at National HPC FacilityHybrid — Berkeley, CA 1 Year Contract Assignment with possibility of extension based on performance and organizational needs. $80/hrEver 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 OwnMonitor and triage alerts across compute, storage, network, and facility systems in real timeBuild automation that prevents issues before they become outagesDevelop new tools and integrations across the monitoring pipeline (APIs ? alerts ? action)Walk the data center floor to keep power, cooling, and environmental systems hummingCoordinate maintenance activities across teams and keep incidents accurately trackedDig into complex, ambiguous problems and drive them to resolutionWhat You BringComfort working Owl shift (12am–8am), 5 days/week, hybrid onsite in Berkeley, CASolid Linux/command-line (SSH) chopsProgramming/scripting experience: Python, C, C++, Perl, or JavaA self-starter mindset, eager to pick up Kubernetes, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, and building management/cooling systemsNetwork security fundamentals (ACLs, firewalls)Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skillsNice to HaveExperience building or deploying Agentic AI / autonomous automation for technical workflowsServiceNow implementation experienceITSM best-practice know-how