# IT SRE Team Lead

**Company:** [Cerebras Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cerebras-systems)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** IT Support
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Terraform, Okta, Entra, Jamf, Intune, SLOs, GitOps, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-04-15

> Leads IT SRE team ensuring reliability of internal systems like identity, endpoints, collaboration tools, and networking. Builds automation, defines SLOs, manages incidents, and drives IaC practices for high-availability in a scaling AI company. Requires 8+ YOE in SRE/DevOps with leadership.

## Job Description

## 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 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.

## Skills and 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.

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