Senior Site Reliability Engineer / HPC - Pre-IPO Tech Leader

Senior Site Reliability Engineer / HPC – Pre\-IPO Tech Leader **About The Role** We are seeking a highly skilled **Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / High\-Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer** to design, build, and operate the large\-scale infrastructure that powers a $2\.5B pre\-IPO technology company. Our systems run on massive distributed clusters, handling some of the most demanding workloads in cloud, AI, and data\-driven computing. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of mission\-critical platforms. You will optimize HPC workloads, streamline CI/CD for large\-scale clusters, and enable research and product teams to deliver innovations with speed and confidence. This is a hands\-on position with the opportunity to influence architecture, lead reliability initiatives, and solve some of the hardest problems in distributed systems and performance engineering. What You’ll Do * Design Reliable Infrastructure: Architect and maintain large\-scale, distributed HPC and cloud\-native systems with a focus on uptime, scalability, and resilience. * Optimize HPC Workloads: Tune scheduling, job orchestration, and performance for compute\- and memory\-intensive workloads (AI/ML, simulations, large\-scale analytics). * Build Observability: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems that provide full visibility into cluster and service health. * Automate Everything: Develop tooling and automation for provisioning, scaling, and recovery of critical systems. * Ensure Security \& Compliance: Implement best practices for access control, encryption, and governance across HPC and cloud environments. * Collaborate Cross\-Functionally: Work with engineering, research, and product teams to deliver reliable infrastructure for next\-gen applications. * Incident Response: Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and postmortems for high\-severity incidents. What We’re Looking For * Professional Experience: 7\+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or HPC roles with a proven track record of supporting large\-scale distributed systems. * Technical Skills: Expertise in Linux systems, Python or Go, and infrastructure\-as\-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar). * HPC Expertise: Strong knowledge of job schedulers (Slurm, Kubernetes, or Mesos), workload managers, and parallel/distributed computing. * Cloud \& Hybrid: Hands\-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure in combination with on\-premises HPC clusters. * Observability: Proficiency with monitoring and logging frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry). * Resilience Engineering: Experience with chaos engineering, failure testing, and disaster recovery planning. * Collaboration: Strong communication skills and the ability to work with research scientists, engineers, and operations teams. * Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Why Join This is an opportunity to join a pre\-IPO technology leader valued at $2\.5B, at a time of rapid growth and innovation. As a Senior SRE / HPC Engineer, you will shape the infrastructure that powers next\-generation AI, analytics, and large\-scale computing. You’ll solve some of the most complex reliability and performance challenges, collaborate with world\-class teams, and play a key role in preparing the company for IPO and beyond. The scale is massive, the challenges are unique, and your impact will be immediate. **About Andiamo** Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go\-to\-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well\-known companies. For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier\-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google\-backed tech start\-ups, and major software firms. Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com