DevOps Engineer

Summary

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.

Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is part of IS&T and delivers global-scale platforms and services that keep Apple's operations secure and running.

Description

A good fit candidate for this role would be passionate in building tools and solutions for mission critical and highly scalable platforms. The candidate will have the zeal and fascination to ensure the highest level of uptime and influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability and high-performance. Expertise in debugging and root causing issues with an instinct to automate repetitive tasks.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining tools and automations for managing Apple's full product lifecycle management ecosystem
• Deploy, support and monitor compute platforms and application stacks
• Ability to understand complex systems and a desire to constantly make things better
• Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams
• Demonstrate ability to deliver results on time with high quality

Minimum Qualifications

• 4–8 years experience with DevOps Engineering on premises environment
• Knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Golang, Python, Ruby, etc.), with 2–3 years of experience and passion for automation
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, etc.) and container management (e.g., K8s, Docker)
• Experience with Linux, networking concepts (TLS/SSL, DNS, Load Balancers, etc.) and troubleshooting skills in large scale environments
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline automation tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, SonarQube, etc.) with 1–2 years in source code (Git), build and dependency management systems (e.g., Maven, Gradle)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP or any other public/private cloud)
• Track record of excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills
• Good working knowledge in dashboards (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana), log monitoring and analysis (e.g. Splunk)
• Understanding of security standards, policies, and cryptography