Senior SRE: Global Traffic & Secure Networking

Apple Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in London seeks a Senior SRE Engineer to own traffic management, load balancing, and secure networking for a globally distributed platform. You’ll influence architecture and drive reliability across North America and Europe, solving complex problems hands-on and mentoring teammates.

The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code, with a focus on 24x7 availability and security. Strong collaboration across time zones is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in traffic management, networking infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• 3+ years of software engineering or reliability engineering experience
• Bachelor of Science in relevant engineering disciplines

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available infrastructure systems for traffic routing, load balancing, and secure connectivity at global scale.
• Collaborate with development teams to influence architecture, improve observability, and embed SRE best practices across the SDLC.
• Respond to incidents on-call and drive proactive engineering, monitoring, and system improvements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive automation and innovation in secure, high-performance networking.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement with clear documentation and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Traffic management

Networking infrastructure

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Reliability engineering

Time zone collaboration

Cloud-native proxies

Service mesh technologies

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure-as-Code

Education

Bachelor of Science in relevant engineering disciplines

Tools

Service mesh

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Apple Inc. in London seeks a Senior SRE Engineer to own traffic management, load balancing, and secure networking for a globally distributed platform. You’ll influence architecture and drive reliability across North America and Europe, solving complex problems hands-on and mentoring teammates.

The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code, with a focus on 24x7 availability and security. Strong collaboration across time zones is essential.