Senior SRE: Bare Metal & Kubernetes Platform Architect

Five9

San Ramon (CA)

Hybrid

USD 91,000 - 252,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Five9 is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Compute Platforms in San Ramon. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and supporting Kubernetes on bare metal within a private cloud, standardizing enterprise compute and hypervisor environments, and automating with IaC and GitOps.

Ideal candidates have expert Linux, OpenStack, and KVM experience, plus hands-on work with PXE provisioning, Redfish, and BMaaS. This hybrid role emphasizes on-call readiness and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
Minimum 6+ years in infrastructure or DevOps with compute system design.
Proven experience with bare metal compute environments and PXE provisioning.
Strong Linux (Ubuntu) and KVM/HV expertise with production Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and design of enterprise compute and hypervisor platform solutions.
Define standards for bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management; BMaaS.
Design and implement BMaaS capabilities for scalable infrastructure consumption.
Architect Kubernetes platforms on bare metal with QoS and ArgoCD.
Develop IaC using Ansible, Terraform, Helm with Git-based workflows.
Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates and recovery.