📍 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