Head of Infrastructure SRE in China
Apple· Software and Services
Shanghaifull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Director of Site Reliability Engineering for ASE Virtual Infrastructure and Service Delivery (VISD) in China. Leads a world-class team to build and deliver scalable, highly available infrastructure underpinning Apple’s services, and partners with software engineering, architecture, and product teams to align on operability and deployment strategies.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the multi-year strategic vision for the reliability, availability, and performance of Apple's mission-critical cloud platform services.
- Lead, scale, and inspire a local organization of SRE managers and engineers focused on massive-scale Kubernetes, compute infrastructure, data platform, and traffic.
- Partner at the executive level with software engineering, architecture, and product teams to align on architectural direction, business priorities, system design for operability, and local deployment.
- Drive organizational excellence by establishing and scaling robust SRE frameworks, including SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and incident management at an enterprise level.
- Oversee massive-scale infrastructure budgets, hardware capacity planning, and strategic vendor or cloud provider relationships.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
- 15+ years of engineering experience in a leadership role managing a large team within infrastructure, cloud, or SRE domains.
- Proven track record of operating and scaling massive, globally distributed, multi-tenant Kubernetes and bare-metal environments in production.
- Expertise in organizational design, scaling engineering teams, and mentoring senior engineering leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to drive enterprise-wide, cross-functional initiatives and influence executive stakeholders.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English and Mandarin, with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse leadership audiences.
Skills
Required:SRE leadershipKubernetes (massive scale)Cloud infrastructure budgeting
Nice to have:Data platform tooling (Spark, Trino, Flink)GPU/AI/ML infrastructure
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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