DevOps Engineer, G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE)

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive workplace environment

Ongoing training and development

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

Apple Inc. is looking for a DevOps Engineer for their G&A Solutions Engineering team in Austin, Texas. This role involves building tools and systems that enhance Apple's infrastructure, working with both open-source and proprietary technology for optimal performance.

You will play a key role in streamlining operations, managing CI/CD pipelines, and staying abreast of the latest DevOps technologies to support the delivery of innovative solutions. We value learning and welcome diverse perspectives.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps and systems engineering.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Ability to program in Java, Python, Shell, or Golang.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage tools for software releases in a fast-paced environment.
• Streamline manual operations and expand system capacity.
• Apply emerging AI/ML technologies to improve delivery speeds.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

CI/CD Pipelines

Container Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Job description

DevOps Engineer, G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE)

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

Do you love understanding every detail of how new technologies work? Join the team that serves as Apple’s nerve center, our Information Systems and Technology group. There are countless ways you’ll contribute here, whether you’re coordinating technology needs for product launches, designing music solutions for retail locations, or ensuring the strength of in-store Wi‑Fi connections. From Apple Pay to the Apple website to our data centers around the globe, you’ll help design and own the massive systems that countless employees and customers rely on every day. You’ll also build custom tools for employees, empowering them to tackle sophisticated problems on their own. Join our team, and together we’ll explore all the ways to improve how Apple operates, freeing our employees to do what they do best: craft magical experiences for our customers.

G&A Solutions Engineering (GSE) is IS&T's dedicated technology partner for Apple's general and administrative functions — including people, finance, facilities, legal, and security. The team builds and delivers integrated technology solutions that keep these functions running efficiently and securely at global scale. GSE also works closely with business teams to develop custom tools that improve productivity and bring greater automation and consistency to G&A operations across Apple.

Are you a passionate operations engineer who wants to work on solving large scale problems? Join us in building best in class solutions and implementing sophisticated software applications. At Apple, we support both open source and home‑grown technologies to provide internal Apple developers with the best possible CI/CD solutions. In this role you will have the unique opportunity to own and improve tooling for best of the class large‑scale platform solutions to help build modern software systems!

Description

As a virtue of being part of this team you would be exposed to a variety of challenges supporting and building highly available systems, working closely with U.S. and India based teams and have the opportunity to expand the capabilities the team has to offer to the wider organization.

Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for building and managing tools that enable software releases in a fast paced enterprise environment
• Designing and implementing new solutions to streamline manual operations, expanding the capacity and performance of current operational systems
• Stay up-to-date with emerging AI/ML and DevOps technologies, applying them to improve speed to delivery, mean time to detect/resolve, security and scalability
• Operate with on‑prem, private, and public cloud platforms
• Partnering closely with global software development teams and infrastructure teams

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, systems engineering, build/release/deployment automation, etc.
• Experience creating and implementing CI/CD pipeline with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, or Spinnaker toolset
• Experience implementing applications in private/public cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and container technologies, like Kubernetes or Docker in production environments
• Ability to program in a high‑level programming languages or scripting, such Java, Python, Shell, or Golang
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or work related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with integrating GenAI or MCP driven tools into DevOps workflows (intelligent code assistance, anomaly detection, automated tests/builds) or components that tackle internal use‑cases
• Self‑driven and motivated with proven ability to learn new technologies and share DevOps best practices
• Working experience with LLMs that tackle real‑time problems when debugging or auto‑remediating production incidents without manual interventions is a plus
• Experience with AWS services including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, Route53. Experience in similar services for GCP is preferred
• Experience with logging infrastructure and using tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Logstash, or Kibana and networking load balancers such as Ngnix, HAProxy
• Experience with Kafka, VectorDB, RDMBS and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra and Oracle)

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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.