IT SRE Team Lead

The role

The IT SRE Team Lead will build and run the reliability function for Cerebras' internal technology estate. This person will lead a team of engineers to manage availability, performance, and operational quality of systems including identity, endpoint management, collaboration, SaaS, and internal networking.

What you will do

• Define and own the reliability strategy for internal IT systems, including SLOs, error budgets, and operational health reporting.
• Build and lead a team of IT SRE engineers focused on automation, observability, and incident response for corporate systems.
• Design and implement automation to eliminate manual IT work across provisioning, access management, patching, and lifecycle operations.
• Instrument internal services and SaaS integrations with monitoring, alerting, and on-call workflows.
• Run incident response for IT outages, including root cause analysis and durable remediation.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across IT-owned systems.
• Partner with security and networking teams on identity, access, and network reliability.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or IT engineering roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership capacity.
• Direct hands on experience with AI coding tools, building and deploying AI agents for triage and bug fixes.
• Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Python, Go, or similar, and comfort writing production-grade automation.
• Deep experience with identity platforms (Okta, Entra), endpoint management (Jamf, Intune), and SaaS integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines applied to IT systems.
• Proven track record of running on-call rotations, defining SLOs, and driving operational maturity in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience supporting highly technical engineering populations where uptime and speed both matter.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to anticipate the needs of customers and internal stakeholders.
• Proactive, adaptable, and able to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• 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.
• Simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.