DevOps Engineer - Emerging Technologies
About the role
DevOps/SRE role focusing on planning, design, and operation of highly scalable, low-latency, distributed enterprise platforms. The engineer will operate and improve production/non-production environments, own CI/CD pipelines, and ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of a globally distributed cloud infrastructure. The position requires a generalist mindset with strong collaboration and ability to ship products in a fast-paced, semi-startup-like environment within Apple.
Responsibilities
- - Operate, monitor, and triage applications in the production and non-production environments, ensuring reliability across its low-latency, Active/Active, and cloud infrastructure.
- - Independently architecting, building, and owning robust CI/CD pipelines and automation systems, from design through long-term maintenance.
- - Owning the reliability, scalability, and performance of high-availability, globally distributed cloud infrastructure powering Apple.
- - Designing, implementing, and continuously improving observability and alerting strategy across services, including defining SLOs/SLIs.
- - Collaborate with cross functional partner teams to align execution with team and org goals.
Qualifications
- - 5 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability engineering.
- - Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go or Java.
- - Experience operating and supporting applications across cloud infrastructure (e.g., AliCloud, AWS and GCP).
- - Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, and Helm.
- - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- - Good command on Linux, networking concepts (TLS/SSL, DNS, Load Balancers, etc.), and troubleshooting skills in large scale environments.
- - Exposure to AI-assisted or AI-infused automation in DevOps workflows (e.g., using LLM-based tools, copilots, or intelligent agents for scripting, incident triage, or pipeline optimization).
- - Hands on experience in one or more databases (Relational / NoSQL like Oracle, MongoDB). Experience managing large Databases with very high transaction rates. Knowledge of Oracle Database architecture and replication.
- - Hands-on experience with Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- - BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent education/experience.
Skills
About Apple
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
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