Technical Operations Engineer & Production Support, Customer Systems
Apple· Corporate Functions
Sunnyvale, California$150.4k - $225.3kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
CS TechOps Engineer (Technical Operations & Site Reliability Engineer) to maintain the reliability, availability, and performance of globally distributed, business-critical systems in Apple’s Customer Systems operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automation solutions to streamline the monitoring, sustenance, and management of large-scale distributed systems.
- Develop tools and software (using Java/JEE, REST, Swift/Objective C, Python, Go, or Bash) to automate repetitive operational tasks, reduce manual intervention, and improve system reliability. Utilize AI & LLM models to gain Operations Excellence in application support.
- Lead the planning and execution of system health monitoring, incident response, and communication across critical global applications.
- Drive operational metrics tracking, KPI identification, and process improvements through coordination with support, engineering and business operations teams.
- Focus on operations management and demonstrate expertise in managing large-scale production outages and leading incident response.
- Deep understanding of production monitoring systems, log analysis, and troubleshooting, support dashboards and proficiency in scripting languages and automation tools.
- Lead a team of highly skilled engineers across the globe and guide their work towards operations excellence, gaining efficiency by automating their daily routine tasks.
- Be a problem-solver who is self-directed and capable of exhibiting deftness to handle multiple simultaneous competing priorities and deliver solutions in a timely manner.
- Create and maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation reflecting architecture, infra configuration, and responsible for writing justifications, training users in complex topics, writing status reports, documenting procedures, and interacting with other Apple staff and management.
- Provide guidance to improve the stability, efficiency and scalability of systems. Strong troubleshooting ability will be used daily.
- Determine future needs for capacity by closely reviewing upcoming application features and load.
- Continuously work with the engineering teams to improve reliability, implementing actionable monitoring framework and be part of production on-call.
Qualifications
- Experience in debugging Java, JEE, REST, Swift/Objective C, Websockets and data access technologies.
- Experience in leading and driving operations teams for large scale mission critical applications working in a 24x7 operations and on/off shore support model
- Strong knowledge of Production support practices for managing web and iOS applications and passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.
- Experience in interpreting data from systems like Open Telemetry, Splunk and other monitoring tools.
- Experience in using AI / LLM models to significantly improve Operations efficiency and perform tasks like model training, MCP creation or designing model utility.
- Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as: HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing is a plus
- Lead a team of highly skilled engineers across the globe and guide their work towards operations excellence, gaining efficiency by automating their daily routine tasks.
- Experience in strategizing and achieving operational excellence in global distributed systems.
- Fundamental understanding of distributed systems including: Micro services, Messaging Brokers and Versioning
- Understanding of the Linux Operating System, including Kernel, Memory, Process, Threads, Static / Shared Libraries, IPC, Signals.
- Excellent organizational and documentation skills.
Skills
Required:Automation and SRE toolingProgramming and scriptingIncident management and on-callMonitoring and observabilityDistributed systemsLinux administration
Nice to have:Networking
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- retirement benefits
- discounted products and free services
- reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
- potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- relocation may be offered
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- stock-based incentive programs
- opportunity to become an Apple shareholder
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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