Data Center Engineer (in Santa Clara, CA)

Five9•San Ramon, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Five9 is seeking an experienced Data Center Engineer for its Infrastructure Reliability team. This role is responsible for building and installing hardware components for the company's infrastructure, with a focus on long-term planning, design, and optimization of the data center environment. The position is based in Santa Clara, CA, requiring five days per week in the office and on-call availability. Responsibilities include managing hardware, software, and network connections to ensure data center reliability, security, and efficiency. Tasks involve equipment installation and configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and contributing to disaster recovery planning. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of data center technologies, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and excellent communication abilities.

Requirements

Strong technical knowledge of networking, servers, storage, and virtualization
Experience with data center design and implementation
Ability to analyze and optimize performance
Project management skills
Minimum of 4 years hands on experience with Data Centre technologies – compute, network, storage, cabling, racks, PDUs, etc.
Great knowledge and experience with planning cooling, power and space resources
Linux/Unix system administration, networking and SAN connectivity skills strongly desired
Experience working with vendors (quote-purchase process, RMA processes, support interactions)
Coding skills to automate repetitive tasks and gather reporting information
Experience supporting 24x7 customer facing production environment
Ability to troubleshoot and solve hardware problems independently
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Comfortable using command line interfaces
Familiarity with Linux and other cli operating systems
Familiar with server, storage, internet technologies
Ability to lift up to 75 lb.

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing new data center infrastructure, optimizing for performance and scalability, ensuring security, and planning for future growth
Build, manage and maintain company’s infrastructure in global data centers
Perform equipment installs – compute, network, storage, racks, PDUs, cabling, etc.
Closely monitor infrastructure to prevent failures and service degradation
Monitor and calculate power usage, power balancing and power availability in each cabinet
Collaborate with other engineers and IT professionals to achieve common goals, troubleshooting and resolving issues
Communicate and coordinate with remote hands in remote data centers, providing technical direction when needed
Maintain asset inventory in DCIM – for both production and lab environments
Perform all shipping and receiving duties including RMA activities
Maintain impeccable documentation around our datacenter configuration
Set standards of excellence for all datacenter operations
Performing regular maintenance tasks, such as cleaning, inspecting, and replacing components, to prevent problems and ensure the longevity of the equipment
Update and work on tickets and tasks assigned in a timely manner
Follow change management process and participate in off hours change windows
Provide 24x7 support as needed
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis for platform reliability issues.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision coverage, beginning on the first day of employment.
Five9 covers 100% of the employee portion of the health, dental and vision coverage and shares a high portion of the dependent cost.
Short & Long-Term Disability
Basic Life Insurance
401k saving plan with employer matching.
Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
Generous employee stock purchase plan.
Paid Time Off
Company paid holidays
Paid volunteer hours
12 weeks paid parental leave.