IT SRE Team Lead

About the role

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip and partners with model labs, enterprises and AI-native startups. It is looking for an experienced IT SRE Team Lead to build and run the reliability function for its internal technology estate. The role covers the availability, performance and operational quality of the systems used by employees, including identity, endpoint management, collaboration, SaaS and internal networking. The team is small and high-leverage, building tooling, writing automation and responding when things break.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Design and implement automation to eliminate manual 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 profile

• 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 and building and deploying AI agents for triage and bug fixes.
• 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.

Required skills

• Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Python, Go or similar, and production-grade automation.
• Identity platforms (Okta, Entra), endpoint management (Jamf, Intune) and SaaS integration patterns.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines applied to IT systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.