Senior DevOps Engineer - Storage Platforms (Onsite, Equity)

five9; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, vision

Paid holidays

12 weeks parental leave

401k matching

Job summary

five9 is seeking a senior DevOps engineer focused on storage engineering for a private cloud. You will build and automate large-scale Software Defined Storage and Kubernetes platforms, applying IaC, GitOps, and SRE practices to deliver secure, multi-tenant storage services for high-throughput workloads.

You will deploy SDS architectures across private and public clouds, manage backups, and develop CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates.

Qualifications

• Six or more years managing enterprise storage and Kubernetes platforms on Linux.
• Expertise with SDS such as Ceph and Longhorn; storage migrations from legacy systems.
• Experience with block, file, and object storage; NVMe-oF or iSCSI fabrics.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform) for provisioning storage and backup schedules.
• Strong scripting in Python and Bash; Go is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, automate, and operate large-scale Software Defined Storage architectures across private and public cloud regions following ITIL practices.
• Deploy and support enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage, HPE, and NetApp alongside SDS solutions like Ceph and Longhorn.
• Integrate self-service storage workflows for Kubernetes CSI drivers and OpenStack consumers including VMs and bare metal.
• Implement and manage backup solutions, with a preference for Rubrik-based platforms.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code for storage using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, and Git, with Python and Bash automation.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates including patching, upgrades, testing, and rollback.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage capacity, latency, IOPS, and recovery health using GitOps and tools such as Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana.
• Perform deep troubleshooting across storage, Kubernetes, hypervisors, networking, and Linux.
• Author technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis, collaborating globally on change management.

Skills

Enterprise storage

Kubernetes

Linux

SDS (Ceph)

Ansible

GitOps

Python

CI/CD pipelines

On-call

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Git

Python

Bash

OpenStack

Ceph

Longhorn

Rubrik

Job description

five9 is seeking a senior DevOps engineer focused on storage engineering for a private cloud. You will build and automate large-scale Software Defined Storage and Kubernetes platforms, applying IaC, GitOps, and SRE practices to deliver secure, multi-tenant storage services for high-throughput workloads.

You will deploy SDS architectures across private and public clouds, manage backups, and develop CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates.