The Voleon Group · 18 hours ago
Senior Cluster Site Reliability Engineer
Berkeley, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$205K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expThe Voleon Group is a technology company that applies advanced machine learning techniques to finance. As a Senior Cluster Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the uptime and reliability of research compute clusters, ensuring they meet the needs of the organization while collaborating with engineering teams to improve operational frameworks and metrics.
Financial ServicesVenture Capital
Responsibilities
Be a first responder in the event of cluster outages or issues. Triage and resolve urgent issues as they arise
Ensure a high degree of cluster uptime (measured in multiple nines), and define + track SLAs to quantify reliability
Diagnose systemic/recurring patterns of problems, and engineer precision solutions to them in collaboration with engineering teams
Develop robust metrics and observability for cluster health and use those metrics to inform your work. Build out custom observability mechanisms when off-the-shelf ones won't do
Help software and research teams design policies around fair cluster usage, and help develop enforcement mechanisms for said policies
Assist in forecasting cluster growth, and help select appropriate scale-up strategies. Help optimize operations across dimensions of cost and usability
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles, preferably working as a senior engineer or tech lead
Knowledge of HPC/batch compute frameworks (Slurm, Kueue, AWS/GCP Batch) and/or machine learning training systems (Kubeflow, MLflow, Horovod)
Ability to develop scripts and utilities of moderate complexity in a common scripting language (Python, Ruby, etc.)
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible)
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
Familiarity designing and implementing modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
Experience with distributed storage technologies (Lustre, Ceph, S3)
Embodies a 'system engineer' rather than 'system administrator' mindset, thinking systematically and leveraging automation
Bachelor degree in computer science
Preferred
Hands-on experience with HPC frameworks (Slurm, Grid Engine) and Kubernetes-based job orchestrators (Airflow, Kueue, Kubeflow Pipelines), along with other distributed computing frameworks (Ray, Modin, Dask, Spark)
Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch/Tensorflow, JAX, Horovod, DeepSpeed)
Familiarity with hybrid/on-prem environments
Experience with containerization (Docker, Podman, Singularity), particularly for HPC/batch compute environments
Experience with HPC networking (InfiniBand, RDMA)
Solid security/IAM foundations (Identity management systems, AWS/GCP IAM, Zero Trust)
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision coverage
Life and AD&D insurance
20 days of paid time off
9 sick days
401(k) plan with a company match
Company
The Voleon Group
The Voleon Group is a family of companies committed to the development & deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management.
201-500 employees
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Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Jon McAuliffe
Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder
Prem Gopalan
Chief Technology Officer
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