12 Nov
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Nameless
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Canada
Cluster & SRE Cluster Site Reliability Engineer Own the physical reality of the platform in one of our seven regions.
You bring up new GPU racks, validate Infini
Band fabric end-to-end, and keep the cluster running at the SLA.
This is a handsâon role; you will see the hardware.
Team Cluster & SRE Location: Onâsite
Cologix region of choice (Toronto, Montréal, Columbus, Vancouver, Ashburn)
Type: Fullâtime
Stack Linux
Infini
Band (NDR / XDR)
NCCL / RCCL
Kubernetes (host-level)
Terraform
Prometheus / Grafana
Go or Python
About The Team Cluster SRE is six engineers across the seven regions.
Each region has a primary and a secondary; you will be one of those for your region.
The team coordinates daily, deploys weekly, and rotates a global pager.
Reports to the head of cluster engineering.
Primary on a single region; rotates secondary for one neighboring region.
The role What you'll do 01 Bring up current B200 / B300 / MI300X racks: cabling, ToR config, NCCL/RCCL all-reduce validation, MFU baseline tests.
02 Drive Infini
Band fabric to spec â NDR / XDR depending on the rack â and chase residual bit-error budget down to zero.
03 Run capacity planning across seven regions: forecast demand, model power and thermal headroom, work with procurement on lead times.
04 Own the regional incident response. P1 incidents page within fifteen minutes; resolution target is four hours.
05 Build and maintain the bringâup runbook so the second hire after you can do their first rack solo.
06 Carry the global pager about one week per six,
alongside runtime and customer engineering.
What we're looking for Five-plus years operating large compute clusters â supercomputing centers, hyperscaler infra, or HPC at a national lab count.
Deep Infini
Band and Ethernet RoCE experience: subnet manager tuning, fabric debugging, lossless networking.
Strong Linux fundamentals: kernel parameters, NUMA topology, kernel cgroup limits.
Comfort writing Go or Python for tooling.
We are not strict about which.
Calm under load.
You will be the named person on a $50M-ARR account when something goes wrong.
Bonus Nice to have, not required DGX H100 / H200 / B200 bringâup history.
Experience with NVIDIA Bright / Base Command Manager.
Bareâmetal provisioning systems: Tinkerbell, MAAS, Razor, or inâhouse equivalents.
Procurement / vendor management experience.
Compensation In writing, like everything else
Base $210,000 â $340,000 USD (US Cologix regions) / equivalent in CA.
Equity Meaningful earlyâstage equity, refreshed on tenure milestones.
Notes Onâsite pay differential at Cologix regions outside SF / NYC / Bay Area is +5â10% to compensate for travel.
Equal opportunity We hire on the work.
Race, gender, age, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and veteran status do not factor into our decisions.
We sponsor visas for senior roles in the US, UK, and EU â bring it up on the manager call.
Need an accommodation for the interview process? Mention it in your application or write .
📌 Cluster Site Reliability Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Nameless
📍 Canada