Site Reliability Engineer - 24/7 HPC Ops & Automation

Bay Systems; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (through Bay Systems Consulting Inc.) seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The role is a 1-year full-time contract with a 24x7 onsite operations team focused on reliability, health monitoring, and proactive automation of HPC center facilities.

The candidate will triage alerts, develop monitoring tools, and collaborate across teams to ensure continuous data collection and service quality.

Qualifications

• Experience in a 24/7 onsite data center environment.
• Proficient in Linux shell and command-line work.
• Experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Python, Java, or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to alerts across systems, storage, network, and facilities.
• Develop and maintain monitoring pipelines and automation to reduce outages.
• Create tools to integrate HPC system APIs into monitoring workflows.
• Collaborate with multiple technical teams to maintain reliability and SLAs.
• Document incidents and resolutions in the ticketing system to support operations.

Skills

Linux shell

C/C++

Python

Java

Perl

Networking fundamentals

IT security basics

Communication skills

Agentic AI automation

ServiceNow

ITSM concepts

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (through Bay Systems Consulting Inc.) seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The role is a 1-year full-time contract with a 24x7 onsite operations team focused on reliability, health monitoring, and proactive automation of HPC center facilities.

The candidate will triage alerts, develop monitoring tools, and collaborate across teams to ensure continuous data collection and service quality.