About the role

What will you do at Apple?

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

If you’re motivated by the idea of making a real impact, and joining a team where we pride ourselves in being one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world, we'd love to hear from you! DESCRIPTION The Customer Systems Team is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer. In this role you will design, build and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure cloud infrastructure which powers the applications and services used by Apple’s customers every day.

You will work closely with cross functional teams, business leaders and other partners across Apple to implement new solutions. If infrastructure as code, automation and intelligent monitoring excites you then this is the job for you.

In this highly visible position, you will: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 5+ years of experience in designing and building resilient, large-scale, low latency, cloud and on-prem Infrastructure including Compute, Storage, and Network 3+ years of experience with deploying/managing Kubernetes using Helm Experience with Shell Scripting, Python, or Ansible Experience in monitoring using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager Deep understanding of networking protocols: DNS, TCP, HTTP/HTTPS Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent experience PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills Good communication skills to collaborate with distributed teams Experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase databases, AWS S3 or similar storage technologies Experience in deploying, monitoring and supporting java applications Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps model Experience in defining, monitoring and achieving key operational metrics like MTTR and SLO Experience with GenAI tools in workflow automation for infrastructure management Ability to learn new technologies in a short time

Which skills does this role require?

KubernetesHelmPythonAnsibleSplunkGrafanaPrometheusAlertmanagerDNSTCPHTTP/HTTPSCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringCloud InfrastructureInfrastructure as CodeShell ScriptingLow LatencyComputeLLMs

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