Senior Storage Platform DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes & SDS

Five9; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Five9 is seeking a SrDevOpsEngineer –StoragePlatforms to build, automate and operate large-scale Software Defined Storage and Kubernetes platforms in a private cloud. You will work on storage engineering with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices to ensure scalability, resilience and performance.

This deeply technical role requires expert knowledge of SDS, Kubernetes and Linux, and close collaboration with platform and SRE teams to maintain secure, multi-tenant, high-throughput services

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.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux systems (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform) for provisioning storage and backup schedules.

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

SDS Ceph Longhorn

Ansible Terraform

GitOps

Python Bash

CI/CD

OpenStack

KVM OpenStack Harvester

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ceph

Longhorn

Rubik

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

Terraform

Ansible

KVM

OpenStack

Job description

Five9 is seeking a SrDevOpsEngineer –StoragePlatforms to build, automate and operate large-scale Software Defined Storage and Kubernetes platforms in a private cloud. You will work on storage engineering with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices to ensure scalability, resilience and performance.

This deeply technical role requires expert knowledge of SDS, Kubernetes and Linux, and close collaboration with platform and SRE teams to maintain secure, multi-tenant, high-throughput services