Sr. Network Operations Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Role Number: 200681813-3401

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, 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

As an Operations Engineer you will be responsible day to day operations of K8 infra, Software Firewalls, VPC management, Incident management of the cloud network services to maintain high availability, scale and resilience. The successful candidate is expected to be highly self-motivated with a passion for excellence, quality and detail in driving solutions. This position requires you to be able to do on-call rotation on periodic basis

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong experience with Linux systems administration, including configuration, automated provisioning and monitoring

• Familiarity with "infrastructure-as-code" approach and tools

• Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration

• Proficient in at least one of these languages: Python, Ansible, Shell

• Confirmed grasp of fundamentals of modern technology stacks: containers, IP networking, HTTP, SSL

• Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies

• Strong operational and troubleshooting skills

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

• Experience supporting environments with thousands of servers and critical uptime requirements

• Experience with IP network design and architecture, routing, firewalls, and switching configuration.

• Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies is big plus

• Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus

• Experience with 3 party cloud like AWS., GCP or AliCloud is a Big Plus

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.