Senior DevOps Engineer

Reposted 22 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
92K-220K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Software
The Role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will manage OpenStack and Kubernetes environments, ensuring high availability and performance, while automating infrastructure and integrating systems. This role requires extensive experience in both platforms and SRE practices.
Summary Generated by Built In

Join us in bringing joy to customer experience.  Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.   

Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves. 

This position spans the Infrastructure Reliability and Platform Engineering domains, with equal responsibility for OpenStack and Rancher-managed Kubernetes environments. The engineer will lead the lifecycle of both platforms, ensuring scalable, secure, and observable foundations that support mission-critical workloads.
This role defines how Five9 builds and runs both OpenStack and Kubernetes platforms at scale, ensuring parity in automation, performance, security, and observability. By bridging the two ecosystems, this engineer will enable hybrid flexibility while providing the resilient foundation on which the business depends.
The role covers:
  • OpenStack: Designing, automating, and operating multi-tenant clusters across Nova, Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Ironic, and Glance, ensuring performance, tenant isolation, and lifecycle automation.
  • Kubernetes (Rancher RKE2/K3s): Designing and maintaining bare-metal clusters with GitOps-driven automation (Fleet, Argo CD, Terraform, Helm), optimized for performance and secured with RBAC, network policies, and compliance guardrails.
  • Cross-Platform Integration: Enabling interoperability (e.g., Magnum, storage backends, network overlays) and shared observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/EFK).
  • SRE Principles: Applying uniform practices across both stacks for capacity planning, high availability, resilience, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Required Expertise:
  • 7+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineering roles.
  • Hands-on mastery of both OpenStack and Rancher Kubernetes in production, with focus on automation, lifecycle management, and high availability.
  • Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Argo CD, and scripting in Python/Go/Bash.
  • Deep understanding of Linux internals and system performance.
  • Proven application of SRE practices in high-stakes, always-on environments.
  • Strong experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK/EFK).
Preferred Expertise:
  • Advanced networking and scheduling: VXLAN, BGP, NIC offload, NUMA-aware scheduling, SR-IOV, and PCI passthrough.
  • OpenStack: Magnum integration, Tempest/Rally for upgrades and validation.
  • Kubernetes: Rancher add-ons (Fleet, Longhorn, CIS Scanning), security hardening (CKA/CKS).
  • Compliance: PCI, FedRAMP, SOC2, FIPS, CIS, NIST standards.
  • Upstream contributions to OpenStack or Kubernetes projects.

 

Work Location: This role is fully remote for candidates who reside outside the 50 mile radius of our San Ramon office.  For candidates who reside within 50 miles of our San Ramon location, this role is Hybrid and would require 3 days a week (M, W, TH) in our San Ramon office. 

As part of our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Five9 supports pay transparency during the entire recruitment process.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including, but not limited to: skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the job across the United States. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation package during your hiring process.

Additionally, the total compensation package for this position may also include an annual performance bonus, stock, and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

Our total reward package also includes:

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage, beginning on the first day of employment. Five9 covers 100% of the employee portion of the health, dental and vision coverage and shares a high portion of the dependent cost. We also offer Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance, and a 401k saving plan with employer matching.
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
  • Generous employee stock purchase plan.
  • Paid Time Off, Company paid holidays, paid volunteer hours and 12 weeks paid parental leave.

All compensation and benefits are subject to the requirements and restrictions set forth in the applicable plan documents and any written agreements between the parties.

The US base salary range for this role is below.
$91,500$219,700 USD

Five9 embraces diversity and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  The more inclusive we are, the better we are.  Five9 is an equal opportunity employer. 

View our privacy policy, including our privacy notice to California residents here: https://www.five9.com/pt-pt/legal.  

Note: Five9 will never request that an applicant send money as a prerequisite for commencing employment with Five9.

Top Skills

Ansible
Argo Cd
Bash
Efk
Go
Grafana
Helm
Kubernetes
Loki
Openstack
Prometheus
Python
Rancher
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: San Ramon, California
2,427 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

Five9 is an industry-leading provider of cloud contact center solutions, bringing the power of cloud innovation to more than 2,000 customers worldwide and facilitating billions of customer engagements annually. The Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Center provides digital engagement, analytics, workflow automation, workforce optimization, and practical AI to help customers reimagine their customer experience. Designed to be reliable, secure, compliant, and scalable, the Five9 platform helps increase agent and supervisor productivity, connects the contact center to the business, and ultimately deliver tangible business results including increased revenue and enhanced customer trust and loyalty

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