Cluster Datacenter Manager - United States | Alabama, United States
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
Manage cluster infrastructure operations and reliability for Cerebras Systems.
About the role
This role involves leading compute infrastructure operations and operational reliability across multiple data center sites.
What you'll do
- Own day-to-day operational health of compute clusters, server racks, and network infrastructure.
- Lead hardware incident triage, fault isolation, break/fix, and diagnostic validation.
- Use monitoring, telemetry, logs, and alerting for system degradation and recovery.
- Lead physical-layer troubleshooting of fiber and copper links, patching, optics, and transceivers.
- Own physical asset accountability from inbound receiving through deployment, repair, and disposition.
- Lead, coach, and evaluate technicians, engineers, and contractor resources across multiple facilities.
- Oversee operational readiness for new compute capacity, including rack integration and system health verification.
- Coordinate with colocation providers and facilities specialists on maintenance risk, alarms, and incident restoration.
What you'll need
- 10+ years of experience in data center, compute infrastructure, or server operations, including 5+ years leading technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-site operations with 24/7 production support.
- Strong hands-on foundation in server hardware, rack infrastructure, hardware diagnostics, and break/fix.
- Working understanding of data center network topology and physical connectivity, including Ethernet, fiber optics, and transceivers.
- Experience with asset management, data-bearing media security, and chain of custody.
- Experience leading incidents, change control, technical escalations, and vendor coordination.
- Ability to interpret facility power and cooling dependencies.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting large compute clusters or high-density server environments.
- Exposure to direct liquid cooling, CDU operations, and thermal telemetry.
- Familiarity with Linux-based troubleshooting, BMC/IPMI, server logs, and hardware telemetry.
- Experience using fiber inspection and testing tools and network test equipment.
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Jira, DCIM/BMS or equivalent monitoring and workflow tools.
- Knowledge of customer security requirements, colocation operating models, and SLAs.
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 54-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3743
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$126k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (3743 roles · 83 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 3743 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 9 | 9738 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 39 d | 54 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 612 open roles · median 54 d
- Lam Research · 547 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 270 open roles · median 45 d
- KLA Corporation · 252 open roles · median 67 d
- ASML · 197 open roles · median 65 d
- ASM International · 162 open roles · median 79 d
How we counted: 3743 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 83 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.