Cerebras Systems
Cluster Datacenter Manager
United States | Alabama · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- The role requires strong technical judgment in server systems, networking, fiber connectivity and secure asset handling, alongside a working understanding of power, cooling and colocation dependencies.
Responsibilities
- Lead hardware incident triage, fault isolation, break/fix, field-replaceable unit (FRU) replacement, diagnostic validation and escalation to systems engineering or vendors.
- Lead physical-layer troubleshooting of fiber and copper links, including patching, optics and transceivers, polarity, cleanliness, labeling and continuity testing using appropriate tools.
- execute approved remediation without assuming ownership of network design.
- Own physical asset accountability from inbound receiving, inspection, staging and inventory through deployment, repair, return and disposition.
- Coordinate with network engineering to isolate physical connectivity faults versus configuration or software issues; execute approved remediation without assuming ownership of network design.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data center, compute infrastructure, server operations or related technical operations, including 5+ years leading technical teams.
- Experience with asset management, data-bearing media security, chain of custody and controlled equipment movement.
- Experience leading incidents, change control, technical escalations, vendor coordination and deployment-to-operations handovers.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting large compute clusters or high-density server environments.
- Familiarity with Linux-based troubleshooting, BMC/IPMI or equivalent out-of-band management, server logs and hardware telemetry.
- Experience using fiber inspection and testing tools, network test equipment and disciplined physical-layer troubleshooting procedures.
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Jira, DCIM/BMS or equivalent monitoring and workflow tools.
- Knowledge of customer security requirements, colocation operating models, SLAs and relevant compliance controls.
- Healthy, available compute and network infrastructure with fast detection, structured triage and durable resolution of recurring failures.
- Consistent physical-layer troubleshooting, secure media handling and accurate hardware and asset records across the cluster.
- New compute capacity enters production with verified readiness, documented ownership and minimal impact on live services.
Skills
- Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.
Compensation
- Specific location, reporting line, travel expectations and compensation to be confirmed for each requisition.
Benefits
- Partner with cluster ops, network and reliability engineering teams on root cause analysis, corrective actions and recurring fleet health issues.
Company info
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
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