Site Reliability Engineer — Scalable Cloud Services

APPLE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate highly available customer-facing services across Apple platforms. You will partner with product teams to implement reliability best practices and automate provisioning, monitoring, and incident response.

You will bring 5+ years in distributed systems, strong Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Nginx/Envoy, Prometheus, Docker, and observability tools such as Splunk and

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent employment.
• 5+ years experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.
• Strong experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks.
• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Experience with observability platforms with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Demonstrable fluency in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Nginx, Envoy, Prometheus, and/or Docker.

Responsibilities

• Engage with our product teams to understand requirements, design and implement resilient and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production environments.
• Collaborate on code, infrastructure, design reviews, and process enhancements
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance.
• Develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor Apple services.
• Participate in an oncall rotation providing hands‑on technical expertise during service impacting events.
• Contribute to capacity planning, scale testing, and disaster recovery exercises
• Approach operational problems with a software engineering mindset.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Distributed systems

Cloud environments

On-call experience

Java/Python/Go

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Nginx/Envoy

Prometheus

Docker

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate highly available customer-facing services across Apple platforms. You will partner with product teams to implement reliability best practices and automate provisioning, monitoring, and incident response.

You will bring 5+ years in distributed systems, strong Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Nginx/Envoy, Prometheus, Docker, and observability tools such as Splunk and