SiteReliabilityEngineerIII

## **Career Category** Engineering ## ## **Job Description** # Position Overview The GCF5 Site Reliability Engineer is the senior technical leader for the HPC Enablement pillar. They define and socialize operational standards and patterns, lead multi-team delivery, mentor GCF4 engineers, and translate researcher needs into scalable compute enablement designs. They own pillar-level reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and SLA/SLO outcomes, and influence cross-team engineering quality. This role reports to the GCF7 leader and partners closely with peer GCF5 domain leads across SCIP to ensure cohesive, scalable platform evolution. # Core Responsibilities * Own the compute reliability and enablement roadmap within SCIP. * Define onboarding playbooks and golden paths for HPC workloads. * Establish containerization and reproducible runtime standards. * Optimize scheduler configuration and resource allocation policies. * Conduct workload profiling and performance tuning. * Define and manage SLOs, reliability standards, and operational guardrails. * Lead incident response and reduce recurring failures. * Mentor engineers and elevate reliability practices. * Partner with scientific teams to translate compute requirements into scalable infrastructure patterns. # Core Competencies * Deep expertise in HPC Enablement (HPC) with evidence of standard‑setting and reuse. * Systems design at scale (HPC); performance, security, and observability fundamentals. * Product/engineering thinking: road mapping, prioritization, and outcome‑oriented delivery. * Stakeholder influence across science, engineering, and governance forums; crisp written/verbal communication. # Core Success Measures * HPC job success rate improvement. * Reduction in MTTR for compute incidents. * Performance improvements relative to baseline. * Time-to-onboard new scientific workloads. * Improvement in cost-per-compute-hour efficiency. * Reduction in operational toil via automation. # Key Relationships * Collabo