About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming

phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring

passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could

accomplish. Apple Pay is transforming the industry in payments, transit and

identity, and we're aggressively focusing on the customer's digital wallet

experience. Our scale and security demands create unique opportunities for

innovative and creative solutions which contribute to millions of customer's

daily interactions.

DESCRIPTION

The Wallet, Payments and Commerce (WPC) Cloud Engineering team is looking for an

experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to take ownership of complex, ambiguous

problems and drive cross-functional solutions that scale with our growth. In

this role you'll independently lead significant pieces of our cloud platform,

set technical direction on project teams, and raise the bar on quality,

security, and customer focus across the organization.

MINIMUM 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… You think about internal developers as

customers, and you've shipped paved roads that people actually want to use.

Kubernetes and Containers… Been there, done that, and now you're the person

others come to when the cluster is on fire. You've owned multi-tenant,

multi-cluster, multi-region footprints end-to-end. Infrastructure as Code, with

deep Crossplane and Terraform experience… You've designed composition and

provider patterns at scale, not just consumed them. The console is for

read-only. Security-first architecture with Policy as Code (Kyverno,

OPA/Gatekeeper)… You bake guardrails into the platform so the secure path is the

easy path, and you can defend your trade-offs to security partners. Public cloud

expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure… You know which services to use, when to

use them, and — just as importantly — when not to. GitOps and CI/CD with Flux,

Jenkins, Kargo… Everything ships through pipelines, promotion is declarative,

and rollback is a non-event. Strong networking fundamentals (NATs, TCP/IP, DNS,

load balancing, mTLS)… You can debug a cross-region connectivity issue without

flinching. Linux internals and systems-level troubleshooting… When the symptom

is "it's slow sometimes," you know how to find the actual cause. Microservices

and distributed systems experience… You've designed for failure, not just

success. 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, cross-functional environments.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work

experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of work experience is highly desirable.

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud InfrastructureKubernetesTerraformCrossplaneAWSGCPAzureGitOpsCI/CDLinuxMicroservicesDistributed SystemsService MeshObservabilityNetworkingSecurity ArchitectureCloud EngineeringFluxJenkinsKargoKyvernoOPAGatekeeperIstioTraefikLinkerDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogSensuSecurityPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure as CodeApple Pay

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