Cerebras Systems
Network Security Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
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About the role
- This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.
- OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/ with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.
Responsibilities
- Support hands-on data center network operations, including deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
- Implement and maintain segmentation, firewall, and ACL policies across corporate, compute, customer, and infrastructure environments.
- Manage inbound and outbound network controls, including public exposure, NAT, load balancers, DNS filtering, proxies, and egress policies.
- Implement and operate VPN, ZTNA, NAC, Wi-Fi, and vendor or partner connectivity.
- Perform recurring firewall rule reviews, segmentation audits, and remediation of unnecessary network exposure.
- Support network telemetry, detection, investigation, and containment in partnership with Security Operations.
- Maintain network architecture documentation, procedures, and runbooks.
- Vendor and partner connectivity.
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in network security, network engineering, cloud security, or infrastructure security.
- Strong hands-on experience with firewalls, ACLs, segmentation, routing, switching, VPNs, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience operating data center and on-premises network infrastructure.
- Experience with AWS networking, including VPCs, transit gateways, security groups, and load balancers.
- Experience with Palo Alto, Juniper, Cloudflare, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitOps, or similar automation tools.
- Strong understanding of ZTNA, NAC, egress controls, TCP/IP, DNS, and TLS.
- Strong written communication and documentation skills.
- Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.
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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