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Sr. Datacenter Provisioning Engineer

Cerebras· Datacenter
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Norway), Hybrid (Toronto, CAN), Hybrid (Finland)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior role responsible for provisioning, commissioning, and validating network infrastructure, servers, and related systems across large-scale data center deployments. Collaborates with engineering, data center technicians, vendors, and operations to bring new sites online quickly and reliably, with automation and scalable repeatable processes.

Responsibilities

  • Provision and configure network devices, firewalls, and servers in data centers by following documented processes and using purpose-built provisioning frameworks and automation tools.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve server, network, configuration, automation, and connectivity issues encountered during infrastructure provisioning and service bring-up.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams, data center technicians, cabling vendors, and rack integrators to coordinate infrastructure deployment and ensure timely site readiness.
  • Support network, power, and mechanical commissioning, including testing and validation of network connectivity, device configurations, server readiness, and infrastructure dependencies.
  • Develop and continuously improve provisioning processes, tooling, and automation to enable reliable, repeatable, and scalable deployment across multiple sites in parallel.
  • Perform post-deployment validation and support integration with monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling to ensure infrastructure meets production-readiness requirements.
  • Coordinate the successful handoff of deployed infrastructure to Operations & Maintenance (O&M) teams - Cluster Operations, Network Operations, Site Operations.
  • Document deployment procedures, troubleshooting findings, lessons learned, and process improvements to increase deployment efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in network device and server provisioning, data center infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related field.
  • Strong hands-on experience with server and network device provisioning and troubleshooting, including diagnosing issues across compute, networking, operating systems, configuration, and automation layers.
  • Proficiency in Python and shell scripting, with experience using automation to streamline infrastructure deployment.
  • Proficient with Linux
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform—AWS, GCP, or Azure—and with Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, and cluster management.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management technologies, particularly Terraform and Ansible.
  • Strong knowledge of fundamentals and technologies, including PXE, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, load balancing, VPCs, firewalls, VLANs, LACP, BGP, and OSPF.
  • Experience upgrading server firmware, switch software OS, and PDU firmware
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and documentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, field, and vendor teams in fast-paced data center deployment environments.
  • 20% travel required including international.

Skills

Required:Network device provisioningTroubleshooting infrastructure provisioningPythonShell scriptingLinuxCloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)KubernetesInfrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)Networking fundamentals
Last updated Oct 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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