Five9

Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer

Five9 · United States (Remote)

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
80 days
Five9's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Five9's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Five9
high
123 stale, 4 reposted of 124 open
Hiring momentum
210 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

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About this role

The Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer will architect, implement, and support a community-driven OpenStack-based private cloud infrastructure. This role involves ensuring scalability, resilience, and performance optimization of the cloud environment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible and Terraform, while collaborating with platform and SRE teams to maintain secure and performant services.

Our read on this posting2.6out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Five9 as an employer.

What you need

  • 5+ years of experience operating and automating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments
  • Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, and Glance
  • Strong Linux systems engineering background with advanced scripting in Python, Bash, or Go
  • Fluency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test frameworks
  • Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking, SDN overlays, load balancing, and storage protocols

Nice to have

  • Experience with container technologies and orchestration tools
  • Contributions to upstream OpenStack codebases or participation in SIGs/WGs
  • Familiarity with RBAC, Keystone federation, Barbican, and Ceilometer/Gnocchi/Aodh
  • Understanding of security best practices for tenant isolation and compliance
  • Background in telco, edge cloud, or large enterprise infrastructure environments

What you get

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee portion covered
  • Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance, and a 401k saving plan with employer matching
  • Access to a mental health support platform
  • Generous employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid Time Off, company paid holidays, paid volunteer hours, and 12 weeks paid parental leave

Worth weighing

  • Role requires deep technical expertise in OpenStack internals and may involve complex troubleshooting
  • No specific mention of ongoing training or professional development opportunities
  • Remote work is available only for candidates outside a 30-mile radius of an office, otherwise hybrid work is required

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Listed by Five9 on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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