Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer | Remote + Equity

five9

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Healthcare, dental, vision

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Paid holidays

Parental leave

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Job summary

Five9 seeks a senior OpenStack engineer to architect, implement, and support a private cloud based on OpenStack. You will customize core projects and automate provisioning through IaC and GitOps pipelines while contributing upstream.

The role emphasizes multi-tenant, secure, and highly available services for mission-critical apps. You will design and implement multi-region OpenStack clusters, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive upstream

Qualifications

Five or more years operating large OpenStack environments, ideally with upstream contrib experience.
Strong IaC proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi.
Deep knowledge of core OpenStack projects and Linux systems.
Fluent in Python, Bash, or Go scripting and Git-based workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

Design and implement multi-tenant OpenStack infrastructure aligned with open community standards.
Automate provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of OpenStack services.
Extend integrations across Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, Glance.
Contribute to upstream OpenStack projects via bug fixes and docs.
Build CD pipelines for OpenStack updates, testing, and rollback.
Develop monitoring and self-healing with GitOps, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana.
Ensure high availability, DR, and scale-out; participate in on-call duty.