About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise

and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems

and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple

does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central

nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions

of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life

running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.” Do you love

building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what

you could do here. Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of

Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems

to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple,

including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a

worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath

everything works without question.

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in cloud

infrastructure, Kubernetes, and platform operations, combined with a

forward-looking mindset in AI-driven automation. This role partners closely with

the Senior DevOps Engineering Manager to scale and modernize our cloud platform,

improve operational excellence, and embed intelligent automation across DevOps

workflows.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Strong experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles. Deep hands-on

experience with Kubernetes in production at scale. Strong expertise in AWS

(Azure or GCP experience also valued). Proficiency in Golang for building

infrastructure and automation tools. Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and

pipeline design. Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices

architectures. Proven experience in production operations and incident

management. Experience building or maintaining observability platforms.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles. Experience

with AI/ML or LLM-based automation in DevOps workflows. Familiarity with

orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph. Experience building

Kubernetes operators or controllers. Background in platform engineering or

internal developer platforms.

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud InfrastructureAWSGolangCI/CDDistributed SystemsMicroservicesObservabilityInfrastructure as CodeInfrastructure ServicesData CenterOperational ExcellenceGoGCPAzureMachine LearningLLMs

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