Manufacturing Linux Network Engineer

About the role

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip and works with model labs, global enterprises and AI-native startups. It is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Linux / Network Engineer to design, implement and maintain robust IT and network infrastructure across its manufacturing facilities. The role sits at the intersection of enterprise IT and plant-floor operations and is critical to the high availability, security and performance required by modern manufacturing environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain LAN/WAN network infrastructure across manufacturing plants, warehouses, cloud providers and corporate sites.
• Implement and manage 10G and 100G core switching on Arista, Juniper and other platforms, with scalable, resilient fabric design.
• Configure, troubleshoot and optimize Layer 2/3 networking (LACP, VLANs, BGP) and security controls (Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, NAC, IDS/IPS), and manage ISP failover and path redundancy.
• Deploy and maintain Linux servers (Red Hat / Rocky Linux) using Ansible, MAAS, Foreman and custom scripting.
• Monitor uptime, latency, bandwidth and capacity, and maintain redundancy, failover, QoS and traffic engineering strategies.
• Manage structured cabling, Wi-Fi 6/6E and ruggedized plant-floor networking hardware.
• Partner with engineering, automation, OT and IT security teams, and lead IT/OT modernization projects.
• Own network documentation, IPAM and SOPs, and provide Tier 2/3 support and on-call duty for production-critical incidents.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 4+ years of network and Linux infrastructure engineering, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Deep Linux expertise with Rocky Linux / RHEL, including DNS, DHCP and NFS.
• Hands-on Palo Alto firewall experience and IaC automation with Ansible, Terraform or equivalent.
• Comfortable working on the plant floor and able to work on-call.

Required skills

• TCP/IP, VLANs, OSPF, BGP, network security and industrial switch vendors (Cisco, Arista, Juniper).
• Wireless networking (Wi-Fi 6, cellular/private LTE) and monitoring platforms (Grafana, Zabbix, PagerDuty).
• Structured cabling and preferred: Python scripting, cloud connectivity (AWS, Azure, GCP), MES platforms, SD-WAN and TIA-568 / IEC 11801.