Infra Systems Engineer: Linux, Storage & Automation

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks a hands-on Linux Infrastructure Engineer to deploy, automate, and maintain compute and storage infrastructure. You will integrate Python, Ansible, and Bash to reduce manual work and improve reliability, across physical and virtual environments.

The role focuses on persistent storage, performance monitoring, and cross-team collaboration to scale Cerebras’ AI hardware platform and data center operations.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Practical experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management.
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as KVM, VMware, or Proxmox.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise or distributed storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Linux servers across physical and virtual environments.
• Deploy and support data storage systems, including block, file, and object storage.
• Configure and troubleshoot storage connectivity, volumes, filesystems, permissions, and access from Linux hosts and VMs.
• Monitor storage capacity, performance, and availability; investigate latency, throughput, and connectivity issues.
• Develop Python and Bash scripts to automate provisioning, configuration, validation, and routine tasks.
• Build and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for consistent deployments.
• Troubleshoot issues across OSes, applications, networking, storage, and virtualization platforms.
• Investigate logs, analyze system behavior, and resolve performance, availability, and configuration problems.
• Manage virtual machines and troubleshoot hypervisor, virtual networking, and storage integration issues.
• Support server provisioning, OS installation, patching, upgrades, and configuration management.
• Support data protection and recovery through snapshots, replication, backups, and restore validation.
• Implement monitoring, health checks, and alerts to identify problems early.
• Collaborate with engineering, networking, storage vendors, and data center operations to deploy and support infrastructure.
• Document configurations, procedures, and runbooks.

Skills

Linux administration

Python

Ansible

Bash

Virtualization

Storage systems

Networking basics

Git

Root cause analysis

Troubleshooting

Tools

KVM

VMware

Proxmox

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks a hands-on Linux Infrastructure Engineer to deploy, automate, and maintain compute and storage infrastructure. You will integrate Python, Ansible, and Bash to reduce manual work and improve reliability, across physical and virtual environments.

The role focuses on persistent storage, performance monitoring, and cross-team collaboration to scale Cerebras’ AI hardware platform and data center operations.