Data Center Provisioning Engineer - Scale & Automation

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks a Data Center Provisioning Engineer to provision, commission and validate network infrastructure, servers, and related systems across large-scale deployments. You will work with engineering, data center technicians, vendors and operations to bring sites online quickly and reliably.

The role requires strong networking and systems expertise, automation focus, and the ability to build repeatable processes that scale across multiple parallel deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in network device and server provisioning, data center infrastructure, SRE, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with server and network device provisioning and troubleshooting across compute, networking, OS, configuration and automation layers.
• Proficiency in Python and shell scripting, with experience using automation to streamline infrastructure deployment.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform—AWS, GCP, or Azure—and with Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, and cluster management.

Responsibilities

• Provision and configure network devices, firewalls, and servers in data centers by following documented processes and using provisioning frameworks and automation tools.
• Troubleshoot server, network, configuration, automation, and connectivity issues during provisioning and service bring-up.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, data center technicians, cabling vendors, and rack integrators to coordinate deployment and site readiness.
• Support network, power, and mechanical commissioning, including testing and validation of connectivity, device configurations, server readiness, and dependencies.
• Develop and improve provisioning processes, tooling, and automation for reliable, repeatable deployment across multiple sites in parallel.
• Perform post-deployment validation and support integration with monitoring, alerting, and ops tooling to ensure production readiness.
• Coordinate handoff of deployed infrastructure to O&M teams across clusters and sites.
• Document deployment procedures, troubleshooting findings, lessons learned, and process improvements.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Network provisioning

Site Reliability Engineering

Communication

Documentation

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS/CE or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

PXE

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks a Data Center Provisioning Engineer to provision, commission and validate network infrastructure, servers, and related systems across large-scale deployments. You will work with engineering, data center technicians, vendors and operations to bring sites online quickly and reliably.

The role requires strong networking and systems expertise, automation focus, and the ability to build repeatable processes that scale across multiple parallel deployments.