About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without.

It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. DESCRIPTION APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Implement Declarative Infrastructure Management using GitOps to maintain and extend our leading role within Apple in infrastructure management.

Accelerate the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process by shifting all testing to be run automatically on any code change. Create Platform tools to support and improve the developer experience resulting in efficiencies in the SDLC process. Create and manage the migration strategy to migrate our on-prem infrastructure to our Apple@AWS infrastructure.

Evaluate and design the target infrastructure architecture. Develop, maintain and optimize cloud native processes and tools implementing the new architecture. Guide application teams to optimize their application infrastructure by unifying the infrastructure architecture.

Validate the target infrastructure based on a variety of metrics (performance, latency, correctness, etc.). Collaborate with our cloud vendors (internal & external) to define the infrastructure strategy for Customer Systems. Responsible for managing (cloud) infrastructure of critical applications such as AppleCare administration, Call Center Case Management, Repair System, Global Service Exchange and Retail Repair Systems in Customer Systems.

Initiate innovative enhancements of productivity tooling and create new tools in the infrastructure as well as test engineering space to benefit our team and Apple's wider organization. Maintain and enhance existing tooling to respond to the rapidly changing environment. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range.

This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $181,100 - $272,100/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.

Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.

Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple

Benefits

https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: Utilizing Java to develop application tools and utilities.

Utilizing Kubernetes to design Cluster Infrastructure and maintain Infrastructure as code – codebase. Applying network and cloud security principles to properly secure Application Environments. Utilizing Third Party Cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to deploy and maintain Application Infrastructure.

Utilizing Declarative Kubernetes Native CI/CD pipelines including Tekton or Argo to onboard new Applications and optimize the build and deployment experience. Utilizing Gradle to collaborate with Application teams to migrate and optimize build application processes. Applying Networking Concepts to design network architecture, debug issues and reduce latency.

Designing, running, and analyzing application performance tests on a Kubernetes infrastructure. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS N/A

Which skills does this role require?

Performance testingGitOpsSDLCSoftware EngineerCloud nativeAppleCareCall center managementGlobal Service ExchangeRetail repair systemsAutomationMachine Learning

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