Senior DevOps Engineer – Storage & Kubernetes (Onsite)

Five9; United States; On-site; USD 90,700 - 252,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Stock options

Paid Time Off

Parental leave

Job summary

Five9 in the United States is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for Storage Platforms to design, automate, and operate large-scale Software Defined Storage and Kubernetes platforms in a private cloud. You’ll apply IaC and GitOps to ensure scalability, resilience, and high performance for mission-critical apps.

The onsite role demands expert Linux and Kubernetes knowledge, experience with Ceph/Longhorn, OpenStack, and building CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience managing enterprise storage and Kubernetes platforms on Linux.
• Strong hands-on experience with SDS solutions (Ceph, Longhorn) and storage migrations from legacy systems.
• Expertise with block, file and object storage, including Fibre Channel and IP-based protocols.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux systems (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for provisioning storage and backup schedules.
• Expertise in backup technologies (Rubik).
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash (Go as a plus).
• Experience operating 24x7 mission-critical production environments.
• Hands-on experience with KVM hypervisors (SUSE Harvester, OpenStack).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, automate, and operate large-scale Software Defined Storage architectures across private and public cloud regions within ITIL methodology.
• Deploy and support enterprise storage platforms (Pure Storage, HPE, NetApp) and SDS solutions (Ceph, Longhorn).
• Integrate self-service storage workflows for Kubernetes CSI and OpenStack consumers (VM and Baremetal).
• Implement and manage backup solutions (preferably Rubik).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code for storage platforms using Ansible, Terraform, Helm and Git, with Python/Bash automation.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates, patching, upgrades, testing and rollback.
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage systems (capacity, latency, IOPS, recovery health) using GitOps and tools such as Prometheus, Loki and Grafana.
• Perform deep troubleshooting across storage, Kubernetes, hypervisors, networking and Linux systems.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures and runbooks.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate globally on change management, documentation and operational best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Software Defined Storage

Ceph

Longhorn

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Git

Python

Bash

OpenStack

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Ceph

Longhorn

Rubik

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Git

Python

Bash

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Five9 in the United States is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for Storage Platforms to design, automate, and operate large-scale Software Defined Storage and Kubernetes platforms in a private cloud. You’ll apply IaC and GitOps to ensure scalability, resilience, and high performance for mission-critical apps.

The onsite role demands expert Linux and Kubernetes knowledge, experience with Ceph/Longhorn, OpenStack, and building CI/CD pipelines.