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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Observability, London

Apple· Observability
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Hybrid (London, United Kingdom)full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

SRE role focused on building and operating Apple's Observability infrastructure at scale. Responsible for deploying, maintaining, and improving systems, tooling, and processes that enable high availability, scalability, and performance for Apple Services (e.g., iCloud, Siri, Maps). Works with development teams to design resilient infrastructure, automates operations, and participates in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, support, and monitor new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks across production and non-production environments.
  • Engage with our development and product partners to understand requirements, then design and implement resilient, scalable infrastructure solutions.
  • Enhance, architect, author, and deliver software that improves the availability, scalability, and security of Apple's observability services.
  • Build and run systems, infrastructure, and applications through automation — provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Use scale testing to measure, tune, and optimise system performance; contribute to capacity planning and disaster-recovery exercises.
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance.
  • Collaborate on code, infrastructure, and design reviews, and drive process improvements.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation, providing hands-on technical expertise during service-impacting events.

Qualifications

  • Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
  • Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.
  • The ability to design, author, and release code in languages like (but not limited to) Go or Python.
  • Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated iteration.
  • Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard networking protocols, and components.
  • Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet and Spinnaker).
  • Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks.
  • Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes.

Skills

Required:GoPythonLinuxNetworkingConfiguration management / delivery platformsKubernetes
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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