Site Reliability Engineer – Scalable Cloud Platforms

Apple Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Dublin is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable compute platforms including VMs and containers. You will own reliability, observability, and automation across mission-critical services for global users.

You will collaborate with software, QA, and program management to embed reliability into development and deployment lifecycles, while contributing to architecture and disaster recovery exercises.

Qualifications

• Expert and in-depth experience with cloud operations focused on infrastructure-as-a-service (compute, storage, network virtualization).
• Strong software development skills in Go and Java, with experience building production services, tools or automation frameworks.
• Experience with software development lifecycle practices including version control, code review, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Experience operating and engineering large-scale multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Managed service.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop tooling, frameworks, and automation in Go and Java to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency of compute infrastructure (VMs, containers, orchestration).
• Define and implement SLOs/SLIs for compute services and build the observability pipelines (metrics, logging, tracing) to measure and enforce them.
• Lead incident response for compute infrastructure, driving triage, root cause analysis, and postmortem corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reproducibility, automated testing, and staged rollouts across the fleet.
• Contribute to compute platform architecture through design reviews, technical design documents, production readiness reviews, capacity planning, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, QA, and program management to embed reliability into the development lifecycle, upholding best practices in code review, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Go

Java

Production services

Automation frameworks

CI/CD

Code review

Version control

Automated testing

Multi-tenant Infra

Communication

Tools

OpenStack

CloudStack

Libvirt

QEMU

KVM

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Apple Inc. in Dublin is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable compute platforms including VMs and containers. You will own reliability, observability, and automation across mission-critical services for global users.

You will collaborate with software, QA, and program management to embed reliability into development and deployment lifecycles, while contributing to architecture and disaster recovery exercises.