DevOps Engineer - Marcom

Apple; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) group in Hyderabad. You will design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across multiple clouds, driving automation, observability, and reliability.

You will mentor peers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to security, performance tuning, and incident response. The role emphasizes leadership, automation, and delivering resilient operations at scale.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including scaling and troubleshooting at scale.
• Proven experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC).
• Strong Python scripting for automation and tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure.
• Mentor peers and collaborate across engineering teams.
• Drive infrastructure improvements and observability initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Problem solving

Automation mindset

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

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.

Description

Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers. The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving. Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes.

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure.The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, automation, and observability, with a proven track record of driving infrastructure improvements, mentoring peers, and collaborating across engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-8 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting at scale).
• Proven experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC networking).
• Strong programming and scripting in Python (automation, tooling, infrastructure pipelines).
• Expertise with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent).

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems administration including performance optimization.
• Solid background with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Strong understanding of networking (DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, Firewalls, VPNs)
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog)
• Excellent problem-solving and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployments.
• Exposure to serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).
• Familiarity with container security and supply chain security best practices.
• Experience with AI-driven automation for infrastructure (predictive scaling, anomaly detection, self healing systems).
• Strong leadership skills with ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.