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Site Reliability Engineer

Sustainable Talent
Santa Clara, CA Posted 11 days ago

Role Overview

Sustainable Talent is hiring a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer. This is a contract role in Santa Clara. Part of Sustainable Talent's Devops hiring, posted last week. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

Salary Context

Salary is not disclosed in this posting. Market median for Mid-level Devops roles is $120k-$160k (based on 31 comparable listings). Many employers share specifics during the interview process or after an initial screen.

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Job description

Sustainable Talent is partnering with Nvidia a global leader who's been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for over 25 years. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to support our client's team based out of in Santa Clara, Ca.

 

This is a full-time (W-2) contract role. We offer competitive pay $65/hr - $85/hr based on factors like experience, education, location, etc. and provide full benefits, PTO, and amazing company culture!

 

We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) to work in IPP (Infrastructure, Planning and Process). IPP is a global organization within NVIDIA. This group works with various other groups within NVIDIA Software such as Graphics Processors, Mobile Processors, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Cars to cater to their infrastructure needs. These cloud services provide almost half a million automated jobs per day on thousands of servers helping with the efficiency of thousands of NVIDIA's software engineers worldwide.

 

The cloud hosts a heterogeneous mix of machines and devices with various operating systems (Windows/Linux/Android), a multitude of hardware platforms both NVIDIA GPUs and Tegra Processors. Are you passionate about infrastructure and looking for sophisticated, relevant issues, ready to build the next generation of cloud services, craft creative solutions, mine through data to uncover real problems and fix them? We would be excited to have you onboard.

 

What you'll be doing:

  • Fleet monitoring & recovery of assets in our private cloud environment that houses several compute servers with NVIDIA GPUs.

 

  • Specific focus on building and stabilizing our virtualization infrastructure of ESXi, KVM and Hyper-V.

 

  • Deploy and maintain a large farm of machines using the latest Configuration Management & Infrastructure Automation tools (Chef, Ansible, Terraform).

 

  • Participate in on-call & rotational L1 support for round-the-clock monitoring and remediation of infrastructure issues (PagerDuty)

 

  • Analyze and Debug operating system, networking, configuration and performance problems.

 

  • Assist in roll-out and deployment of infrastructure configurations to supporting the latest NVIDIA hardware and technologies.

 

  • Contribute to the development of monitoring systems to have fast, reliable and real-time pulse of the various infrastructure subsystems (Zabbix, Big Panda, Grafana)

 

What we need to see:

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

 

  • Experience working in large scale enterprise production systems. 5+ years of professional experience required.

 

  • Ability to debug and analyze system issues, code to triage, root cause and resolve issues in the infrastructure. Work closely with the platform engineering team in understanding hardware setups.

 

  • Familiar with maintenance and setup of Linux, Windows hosts

 

  • Scripting experience with any of Python, Go. Unix shell proficiency.

 

  • Experience with version control systems like Perforce, GIT.

 

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience with VM and hardware virtualization technologies like VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker and Kubernetes.

 

  • Background with automating bare metal and VM provisioning.

 

  • Experience with supporting GPUs, embedded device development, driver development and CUDA/TensorRT applications.

 

  • Development experience in Chef, Ansible and infrastructure orchestration.

 

Sustainable Talent is a M/F+, disabled, and veteran equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.

 

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Where is the Site Reliability Engineer position at Sustainable Talent located?

This position is based in Santa Clara. Sustainable Talent has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer at Sustainable Talent earn?

Sustainable Talent has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.

When was the Site Reliability Engineer role at Sustainable Talent posted?

This role was posted on July 2, 2026 (11 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

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