Sr. Datacenter Provisioning Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 18 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Sr. Datacenter Provisioning Engineer will be responsible for provisioning, commissioning, and validating network infrastructure, servers, and related systems across large-scale data center deployments. This role works closely with engineering teams, data center technicians, vendors, and operations teams to bring new sites and infrastructure online quickly and reliably.
What you'll do
- Provision and configure network devices, firewalls, and servers in data centers using provisioning frameworks and automation tools.
- Troubleshoot and resolve server, network, configuration, automation, and connectivity issues during infrastructure provisioning and service bring-up.
- Coordinate infrastructure deployment and ensure timely site readiness with engineering teams, data center technicians, cabling vendors, and rack integrators.
- Support network, power, and mechanical commissioning, including testing and validation of network connectivity, device configurations, server readiness, and infrastructure dependencies.
- Develop and improve provisioning processes, tooling, and automation for reliable, repeatable, and scalable deployment across multiple sites.
- Perform post-deployment validation and support integration with monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in network device and server provisioning, data center infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Strong hands-on experience with server and network device provisioning and troubleshooting across compute, networking, operating systems, configuration, and automation layers.
- Proficiency in Python and shell scripting for infrastructure deployment automation.
- Proficient with Linux.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and with Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, and cluster management.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management technologies, specifically Terraform and Ansible.
- Strong knowledge of PXE, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, load balancing, VPCs, firewalls, VLANs, LACP, BGP, and OSPF.
- Experience upgrading server firmware, switch software OS, and PDU firmware.
Skills: network device provisioning, server provisioning, Python scripting, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
This role has been open 59 days — slightly above the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
976
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (976 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 976 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 76 | 6157 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 82 d | 51 d (+31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: network device provisioning, server provisioning, Python scripting, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 18 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 92 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 11 d
- Cerebras (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 82 d
How we counted: 976 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.