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Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Apple· AiDP / IS&T (Information Systems and Technology)
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Hybrid (Hyderabad)full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Experienced SRE Manager to lead scalable, resilient data platforms and analytics pipelines within Apple's AiDP/IS&T organization. Focuses on on-prem and cloud infrastructure, incident response, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to ensure production reliability of enterprise data systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead by Example: Provide technical leadership and guidance to SRE team by applying hands-on skills and continuous learning. Build and mentor a world-class engineering team that partners closely with platform teams to design scalable, reliable systems, while contributing actively to both platform and application code.
  • Drive Automation for Data Platforms and Infrastructure: Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and develop tooling to enhance engineering productivity. Lead initiatives for cost optimization and operational efficiency at scale.
  • Incident Response and On-Call Engagement: Actively participate in on-call rotations and resolve critical production issues. Lead response efforts during major incidents and serve as the primary escalation point for complex problems.
  • Drive Post-Incident Analysis: Perform root cause investigations and ensure follow-up with actionable postmortems and infrastructure hardening initiatives. Implement fixes—in code, infrastructure, or processes—to prevent recurrence.
  • Active Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner closely with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, deploy fixes, and enhance system reliability. Champion operational excellence through direct technical contributions.
  • Establish Production Readiness Standards: Take ownership of Application Security, Disaster Recovery & Application Documentation to reflect latest system architecture and configurations.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or a related domain.
  • 2+ years of direct people-management experience, including leading, hiring, developing, and building engineering teams.
  • Hands-on experience supporting and maintaining applications in cloud or hybrid environments.
  • Expertise in cloud-native services, including ETL frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Flink) and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka).
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure & services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
  • Programming experience in Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Proven ability to lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive system reliability improvements.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
  • Hands-on experience supporting enterprise data systems on distributed architectures.

Skills

Required:SRE leadershipIncident response & RCAInfra as Code (IaC)Cloud platformsObservabilityProgramming
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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