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Senior Cloud Engineer

Apple· Software and Services
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Cary, North Carolina, Austin, Texasfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Engineer to own and scale cloud platform capabilities within the Wallet, Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team at Apple. Lead end-to-end design, delivery, security, and governance of platform-as-a-product offerings for internal developers, driving multi-quarter initiatives and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and delivery of platform capabilities end-to-end — from gathering requirements with product and partner teams to running them in production.
  • Drive technical direction on multi-quarter initiatives, framing trade-offs and aligning engineering, security, quality, and SRE partners around shared outcomes.
  • Architect and evolve our platform-as-a-product offerings, treating internal developers as first-class customers and reducing the friction between idea and production.
  • Lead the design and rollout of security-first patterns and policy-as-code controls (Kyverno, OPA) so the platform makes the secure path the easy path.
  • Solve complex problems using a mix of open-source and in-house tooling, balancing pragmatism with the long-term health of the platform.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design partnership, and targeted coaching on complex assignments.
  • Scale existing technologies and introduce new ones to outpace growth projections, and shepherd them from experiment to production-grade adoption.
  • Represent the team in cross-organization initiatives, partnering with adjacent platform, security and developer teams to keep our technical strategy cohesive.
  • Evangelize next-generation cloud and DevOps practices, building the credibility and shared understanding needed to bring them to fruition across WPC.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience, with a track record of owning systems end-to-end in production.
  • Experience building platforms and platform-as-a-product… internal developers as customers, with paved roads that people actually use.
  • Kubernetes and Containers… experience with multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region footprints end-to-end.
  • Infrastructure as Code, with deep Crossplane and Terraform experience… design of composition and provider patterns at scale.
  • Security-first architecture with Policy as Code (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper).
  • Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
  • GitOps and CI/CD with Flux, Jenkins, Kargo.
  • Strong networking fundamentals (NATs, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, mTLS).
  • Linux internals and systems-level troubleshooting.
  • Microservices and distributed systems experience.
  • Experience with service meshes (Istio, Traefik, LinkerD) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Sensu).
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, drive technical direction across a project team, and align solutions with business objectives in ambiguous environments.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of work experience is highly desirable.

Skills

Required:Cloud platform engineeringInfrastructure as Code (Crossplane, Terraform)Policy as Code (Kyverno, OPA)Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)GitOps / CI/CDNetworkingLinux systemsMicroservices / distributed systemsService meshes / observabilityMentoring / leadership
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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