Linux Systems & Storage Automation Engineer

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

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is seeking a hands-on engineer to deploy, automate, troubleshoot, and maintain Linux-based compute and storage infrastructure. The role emphasizes Python, Ansible, shell scripting, virtualization, and storage experience to build reliable, scalable systems.

You will collaborate with engineering, networking, storage vendors, and data center teams to provision servers, manage data protection, and implement automation that reduces manual work and improves performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Experience with Ansible for automation and configuration.
• Experience with virtualization and enterprise storage.

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 virtual machines.
• Monitor storage capacity, performance, and availability; investigate latency, throughput, and connectivity issues.
• Develop Python and Bash scripts to automate provisioning, configuration, validation, and routine operational tasks.
• Build and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for consistent, repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Troubleshoot issues across operating systems, 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, operating system 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 teams to deploy and support infrastructure.
• Document configurations, troubleshooting procedures, and operational runbooks.

Skills

Linux administration

Python

Shell scripting

Ansible

Troubleshooting

Networking

Git

Root cause analysis

Tools

KVM

VMware

Proxmox

NFS

SMB

iSCSI

S3

Job description

Cerebras Systems is seeking a hands-on engineer to deploy, automate, troubleshoot, and maintain Linux-based compute and storage infrastructure. The role emphasizes Python, Ansible, shell scripting, virtualization, and storage experience to build reliable, scalable systems.

You will collaborate with engineering, networking, storage vendors, and data center teams to provision servers, manage data protection, and implement automation that reduces manual work and improves performance.