Senior Director, Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering

Five9

2d • $135,900 - $448,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Five9 is investing in the leadership of its platform function. We want someone who runs this like a software product organization. Infrastructure architects who use code on the side won’t make it here. You will have deployed platforms that real developers consume. Versioned modules. Real release cadence. Deprecation done right. Consumers who pin to interfaces because they trust them. You will have built and run end-to-end pipelines where build, test, security, deploy, observe, rollback, and upgrade are first-class concerns. If you spent your career drawing diagrams and handing them off, this isn’t the seat for you. The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform function is being reshaped, the team is being built up, and modernization is already in motion. Today the platform work is fragmented across reporting lines and skill sets. The right person walks in expecting that, gets the urgent work stable, and starts shaping the team and the operating model on a clock we can measure. This is a player-coach leadership role requiring strong technical judgment, hands-on engagement in architecture and engineering practices, and the ability to build teams and systems that scale beyond individual dependency.

Requirements

• Proven ability to build, scale, and mature engineering organizations, including hiring, coaching, organizational design, and raising engineering standards
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to present platform health, reliability, adoption, cost, and roadmap metrics to senior leadership
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and embedded partner resources within a unified operating model
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business or related field
• 10+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering organizations in large-scale production environments, including experience operating platforms as software products
• Strong hands-on software engineering background with experience in Python, Go, or similar languages, along with Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform, Ansible, Git, or equivalent tooling
• Deep experience building and operating CI/CD-driven platform environments with integrated testing, deployment, observability, rollback, security validation, and lifecycle management practices
• Strong production-scale experience with on-premises Kubernetes and container platforms, including Rancher, OpenShift, Anthos, or similar technologies
• Experience building and operating Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) focused on self-service capabilities, standardized platform services, and developer adoption
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident management, and operational reliability practices
• Experience implementing security-as-code, policy-as-code, software supply chain controls, and progressive delivery patterns within CI/CD environments
• Experience operating hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, and AI/GPU-enabled infrastructure platforms

Nice To Haves

• Infrastructure architects who use code on the side won’t make it here.
• If you spent your career drawing diagrams and handing them off, this isn’t the seat for you.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform function end-to-end across Openstack and Kubernetes (private cloud), Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, shared platform services, and AI compute infrastructure
• Operate the platform as a product for internal engineering teams, driving adoption, self-service, developer experience, standardized platform patterns, and measurable delivery outcomes
• Lead the platform software supply chain, including source control, code review, CI/CD, testing, security validation, artifact management, observability, deployment, rollback, release management, and lifecycle governance
• Define and mature core platform services including observability, secrets management, DNS/DDI, identity, registries, CI/CD tooling, and GPU-enabled platform capabilities supporting AI workloads
• Drive platform architecture and technology direction across Kubernetes, storage, and virtualization including operational hardening, scalability, and modernization initiatives
• Establish scalable operational and engineering practices including SLOs, incident escalation response, change management, on-call health, runbooks, post-incident corrective actions, ADRs, code reviews, and shared ownership models
• Build and develop a high-performing platform engineering organization through strong hiring, leveling, coaching, engineering standards, and organizational design practices
• Partner closely with network, compute, storage, and datacenter operations leadership, security, production operations, cloud engineering, and automation teams to drive aligned platform execution at scale

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, and a 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 and 12 weeks paid parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director