Senior Cloud Engineer – Wallet & Payments Platform

Apple, Inc.; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Cary, North Carolina invites a Senior Cloud Engineer to own complex cloud platform initiatives within Wallet, Payments and Commerce.

You will lead end-to-end design, drive security‑first patterns, and mentor engineers across product and security teams. You will work with Kubernetes, IaC (Crossplane, Terraform), policy as code (Kyverno, OPA), and GitOps pipelines to deliver scalable, production‑grade solutions that empower millions of customer interactions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience, with a track record of owning systems end-to-end in production.
• Experience building platforms and platform‑as‑a‑product; you ship paved roads that developers actually want to use.
• Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, with strong networking and security focus.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of platform capabilities end-to-end—from requirements to production.
• Drive technical direction on multi-quarter initiatives, aligning engineering, security, quality, and SRE.
• Architect and evolve platform‑as‑a‑product offerings, treating internal developers as customers.
• Lead design and rollout of security‑first patterns and policy‑as‑code controls.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers through code reviews and design partnerships.
• Scale existing technologies and shepherd them to production‑grade adoption.

Skills

Kubernetes

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Policy as Code

Public Cloud

GitOps

CI/CD

Networking

Linux

Microservices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS

Tools

Crossplane

Terraform

Kyverno

OPA/Gatekeeper

Flux

Jenkins

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Cary, North Carolina invites a Senior Cloud Engineer to own complex cloud platform initiatives within Wallet, Payments and Commerce.

You will lead end-to-end design, drive security‑first patterns, and mentor engineers across product and security teams. You will work with Kubernetes, IaC (Crossplane, Terraform), policy as code (Kyverno, OPA), and GitOps pipelines to deliver scalable, production‑grade solutions that empower millions of customer interactions.