Cerebras Systems
Senior Manager, Production & Fleet Operations
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior
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About the role
- Operate the Cerebras production fleet safely, reliably, and consistently - providing continuous visibility into infrastructure health, rapid restoration when failures occur, and an increasingly standardized and automated operating model as the fleet scales.
Responsibilities
- Maintain clear visibility into production state, degradation, outages, maintenance, and infrastructure availability.
- Develop and mature the Cerebras Fleet Operations/NOC capability.
- Develop shift, handoff, escalation, and on-call operating procedures.
- Partner with Service Ops & Enablement to develop operator competency and training requirements.
- Drive standardization across geographically distributed infrastructure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure operations, cloud operations, fleet operations, SRE, HPC operations, data center operations, or similar technical environments.
- 3+ years leading technical operations teams.
- Experience operating complex, highly available production infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, telemetry, incident response, maintenance, hardware troubleshooting, and service restoration.
- Demonstrated ability to establish repeatable processes in rapidly evolving environments.
- Ensure operators have the tooling, runbooks, procedures, and access required to safely operate production infrastructure.
- Determine when physical intervention is required.
- Experience coordinating work between centralized operations and onsite technical teams.
- Strong infrastructure troubleshooting and operational judgment.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
- Demonstrated focus on automation and reduction of operational toil.
Nice to have
- AI/HPC, large-scale compute, accelerator, cloud, or distributed infrastructure experience.
- Experience with hardware-intensive production environments.
- Experience managing hardware repair/RMA processes.
- Experience operating geographically distributed infrastructure.
- Why Join Cerebras
- With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we've reached an inflection point in our business.
- Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
Skills
- Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.
Benefits
- Own day-to-day operational health of Cerebras-managed production infrastructure.
- Develop appropriate 24x7 operational coverage as fleet requirements evolve.
- Establish standards for monitoring, telemetry, alerting, dashboards, and fleet-health reporting.
Company info
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
- We are seeking a Senior Manager, Production & Fleet Operations to lead the day-to-day operational management of Cerebras-managed production infrastructure.
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