How to make an iproute2 bridge setup permanent?

I've set up an archlinux inside a Oracle Virtual Box. To be able to reach the VM from the LAN I have added a bridge adapter and configured the guest system following the instructions from the Arch Linux Wiki: Network bridge | With iproute2 . I used the following commands to successfully set up the network: ip link add name lan_bridge type bridge ip link set lan_bridge up ip link enp0s8 up ip link set enp0s8 master lan_bridge systemctl start dhcpcd@lan_bridge After those steps I'm able to login into the guest via SSH. Trying to make the changes persistent using: systemctl enable dhcpcd@lan_bridge does not work, though. I'd like systemd to create the exact same setup on startup automatically. Of course I could just paste those commands into a shell script and run it at startup, but I think there should be a proper way to do so. Help is greatly appreciated.