Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Compute Platforms
Five9
| Company | Five9 |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | United States (Remote) |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 12 May 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Join us in bringing joy to customer experience. Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide.
Living our values everyday results in our team-first culture and enables us to innovate, grow, and thrive while enjoying the journey together. We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Compute Platforms to design, implement, and support Kubernetes on baremetal and hypervisor platforms in a private cloud environment. This role is responsible for the architecture, design, and standardization of enterprise compute and hypervisor environments spanning bare metal infrastructure, operating systems, hypervisors, private cloud orchestration, and Kubernetes using Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices.
This is a deeply technical role requiring expert-level understanding of compute hardware management, Kubernetes, OpenStack, hypervisors and extensive working knowledge on Linux Operating systems. You will also collaborate with platform and SRE teams to maintain secure, performant, and multi-tenant-isolated services that serve high-throughput, mission-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the architecture and design of enterprise compute and hypervisor platform solutions across hardware, OS, virtualization, cloud orchestration, and container orchestration layers
Define standards and automation frameworks for bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management
Design and implement Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) capabilities for scalable infrastructure consumption
Architect and design Kubernetes platforms on bare metal with QoS and Affinity (ArgoCD)
Architect and validate automated deployments of operating systems and hypervisors including Ubuntu and Harvester
Design and maintain PXE-based provisioning environments leveraging Redfish APIs for large-scale server deployments
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm and Git, with Python/Bash automation.
Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure updates, patching, upgrades, testing, and rollback.
Design automated workflows for server build, firmware lifecycle management, patching, and hardware validation
Evaluate and standardize enterprise hardware platforms to meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements
Produce detailed high-level and low-level design documentation , build guides, and operational handoff materials
Perform deep troubleshooting across storage, Kubernetes, hypervisors, networking, and Linux systems
Partner with operations, network, storage, and platform teams to ensure designs are supportable and production-ready
Participate in on-call escalation support for complex platform-related issues
Collaborate globally on change management , documentation, and operational best practices
Minimum Qualifications
6 + years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps with a strong focus on Compute system design
Proven experience designing and automating bare metal compute environments at scale
Strong hands-on experience with PXE boot, network-based OS provisioning, and automated server imaging
Experience implementing or supporting Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) platforms
Practical experience using Redfish APIs for hardware provisioning, power management, and remote lifecycle operations
Deep expertise with Ubuntu Linux in enterprise environments
Strong Hands-on experience with KVM hypervisors (Suse Harvester, OpenStack).
Experience designing and deploying production-grade Kubernetes clusters
Strong background with enterprise compute hardware platforms , including Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge, Supermicro systems & HPE
Proficiency with Infras
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