Senior Site Reliability Engineer HPC Cloud

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to and resolve operational incidents, identify root causes for critical issues, and implement strategies to prevent recurrence and improve platform resiliency.
• Proactively create and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and visibility across all services.
• Take a Site Reliability Engineering approach to our services, improving the deployment, monitoring and incident response end-to-end.
• Solve complex technical problems, with SCP applications, infrastructure and end user’s use of the services.
• Administer platform tools like Ansible, Vault, Consul, Prometheus, and Grafana to support core functions like configuration management, secrets management, monitoring, and observability.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers in the team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture.
• Drive automation for deployment and management processes using GitOps workflows as well as CI/CD pipelines.
  
  

• Experienced administering, maintaining and troubleshooting a Linux environment
• Competent in automation and bash scripting
• Highly customer focused; able to explain IT technical concepts in a manner which non-IT experts can understand
• Hands-on experience working in a DevOps team and using agile methodologies
  
  

• Hands-on knowledge of a range of scientific and HPC applications such as simulation software, bioinformatics tools or 3D data visualization packages
• Experience administering and optimizing SLURM
• Experience deploying and administering OpenStack
• Experience with configuration automation and infrastructure as code (e.g. Ansible, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Cloud Developer Kit)
• Experience deploying infrastructure and code to public cloud, especially AWS
• Experience with software distribution frameworks such as Easybuild or Spack
• Familiarity with container runtimes such as Docker, Singularity or enroot
• Experience with frameworks for regression tests and benchmarks for HPC applications, like Reframe HPC