We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II) to support Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory’s 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 troubleshooting skills and experience in monitoring, alerting, incident response, automation, and production support.

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
• Collaborate across technical teams to improve reliability and operational processes
• Perform periodic data center walkthroughs to verify environmental, cooling, and power systems

• Experience supporting Linux-based production systems in a 24x7 operations, SRE, NOC, data center, or similar environment
• Strong Linux administration and command-line experience
• Experience troubleshooting production issues from alert through resolution
• Experience developing tools or automation using Python, Perl, Java, C, C++, Bash, or similar

• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and operational support workflows

• 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; AI-driven automation experience is a plus

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• Permanent overnight schedule of midnight to 8:00 a.m., five days per week
• 100% onsite in Berkeley, California
• U.S. only
• No third-party agencies, Corp-to-Corp (C2C), or subcontracting arrangements