Infrastructure Systems Engineer – Linux, Storage & Automation
Cerebras · Sunnyvale, CA
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## Infrastructure Systems Engineer – Linux, Storage & Automation ### About Cerebras Cerebras Systems builds the world’s largest AI chip—an architecture designed to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds (over 10× faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services). Cerebras works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and AI-native startups. ### The Role We’re looking for a hands-on engineer to deploy, automate, troubleshoot, and maintain **Linux-based compute and data storage infrastructure**. You’ll combine strong Linux fundamentals with **Python, Ansible, shell scripting, virtualization, and storage** experience—investigating complex problems and building automation that improves reliability and reduces manual work. ### Responsibilities - Deploy, configure, and maintain Linux servers across physical and virtual environments - Deploy and support data storage systems (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 operations - Build and maintain **Ansible** playbooks and roles for 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 - Support server provisioning, OS installation, patching, upgrades, and configuration management - Support data protection and recovery via 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 - Document configurations, troubleshooting procedures, and operational runbooks ### Qualifications - Strong hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems - Proficiency in **Python** and shell scripting (especially **Bash**) - 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 - Working knowledge of block, file, and object storage concepts; practical experience with **NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or S3** - Familiarity with Linux storage management (disk configuration, RAID, LVM, filesystems, mount management) - Ability to troubleshoot storage performance using **IOPS, throughput, and latency** - Strong debugging skills and methodical root-cause analysis - Working knowledge of **TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs**, and network troubleshooting - Familiarity with Linux services, permissions, processes, package management, and system logs - Experience using **Git** for version control and collaboration - Ability to own technical problems through resolution and communicate findings clearly ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience with storage platforms such as **VAST Data, NetApp, Dell PowerScale, Pure Storage, or Ceph** - Familiarity with high-performance storage networking (e.g., **RDMA, RoCE, Inf
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