Senior Cloud Engineer - Health Platform & CI/CD Excellence

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 184,700 - 324,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock plans

Relocation assistance

Medical & dental coverage

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for Apple Health services. You’ll automate, monitor, and optimize data/backend systems while supporting CI/CD pipelines and incident response.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, and NoSQL data systems across large production environments, collaborating with software, security, and product teams to enforce best practices and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience in engineering, Cloud, or as a software engineering staff member.
• Strong programming and scripting fundamentals, Python and Bash
• Modern web services architectures, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP
• Source control management such as Git, SVN
• Linux fundamentals, experience with hardening operating system images
• Hands‑on experience with Log mining frameworks like Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Loki etc
• Grafana or similar for investigating or monitoring problems on systems
• Release and management of NoSQL, Zookeeper, Spark, Mesos
• In‑depth knowledge of build/release systems and process
• BS Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Comfortable with weekly on‑call rotation
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP to support Apple Health software services
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable software delivery
• Write automation tools and scripts in Python and Bash to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency
• Monitor system health and performance using observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and Loki, and drive resolution of incidents
• Manage and optimize containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in large‑scale production environments
• Administer and support distributed data systems including NoSQL databases, Zookeeper, Spark, and Mesos
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with software engineers, security teams, and product teams to define and implement infrastructure best practices
• Own and improve build and release systems, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance at scale
• Conduct root cause analysis on production incidents and implement preventative measures to reduce recurrence
• Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization across cloud environments
• Maintain source control workflows and repository hygiene using Git or SVN
• Document systems, runbooks, and operational procedures to support team knowledge sharing and continuity

Skills

Python

Bash

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

SVN

Linux

Splunk

Prometheus

Loki

Grafana

NoSQL

Zookeeper

Spark

Mesos

Education

BS Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

SVN

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Splunk

Spark

Zookeeper

Mesos

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for Apple Health services. You’ll automate, monitor, and optimize data/backend systems while supporting CI/CD pipelines and incident response.

You will work with Docker, Kubernetes, and NoSQL data systems across large production environments, collaborating with software, security, and product teams to enforce best practices and reliability.