Linux Systems / Site Reliability Engineer (Overnight Shift)

• Permanent overnight schedule of midnight to 8:00 a.m., five days per week.
• 100% onsite in Berkeley, California
• No third-party agencies, Corp-to-Corp (C2C), or subcontracting arrangements
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship, Perfect Timing Personnel is 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 ensure the reliability and performance of critical high-performance computing infrastructure that supports scientific research and discovery.

This role is ideal for a Linux-focused infrastructure professional with experience in systems operations, monitoring, automation, and incident response who enjoys solving complex technical challenges in a mission-driven environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitor computing, storage, network, and facility systems to ensure reliable operations
• Respond to alerts, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate with on-call teams as needed
• Develop and maintain automation, monitoring, and alerting solutions that improve operational efficiency
• Build tools and integrations that support incident management and infrastructure monitoring
• Support incident tracking and operational workflows through ServiceNow
• Collaborate across technical teams to coordinate maintenance activities and improve reliability
• Perform periodic data center walkthroughs to verify environmental, cooling, and power systems are operating properly

• Experience supporting large-scale IT infrastructure, data centers, or other highly available production environments
• Strong Linux administration and command-line experience
• Experience developing tools or automation using Python, Perl, Java, C, C++, or similar scripting/programming languages
• Experience troubleshooting production issues and working across technical teams to resolve them
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability and willingness to work a regular onsite overnight schedule

Preferred

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, NOC, Systems Administration, Infrastructure Operations, or Platform Engineering
• ServiceNow experience
• Experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, or similar monitoring platforms
• Familiarity with IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices
• Experience supporting HPC, research computing, scientific computing, or other mission-critical environments
• Experience developing automation tools; experience with AI-driven automation is a plus, * Linux: 5 years (Preferred)

Pay: $80.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• Are you able to work a permanent onsite overnight schedule of midnight to 8:00 a.m., five days per week in Berkeley, CA?
• Have you supported production Linux systems in a 24x7 operations, data center, NOC, SRE, or infrastructure environment?