Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Secure, Scalable Services

Apple Inc.; Cary (NC); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Cary, NC to own platform capabilities end-to-end, from requirements gathering to production deployment. You will drive multi-quarter initiatives, align engineering, security, and SRE partners, and evolve platform-as-a-product offerings for internal developers.

You’ll mentor engineers, promote security-first patterns, and balance open-source with in-house tooling to scale with our growth and protect users across Apple’s cloud footprint.

Formación

• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure and platforms in production.
• Experience shipping platforms as products for internal developers.
• Advanced Kubernetes and multi-cluster/region ownership.
• Infrastructure as Code with Crossplane and Terraform at scale.
• Security-first architecture with Policy as Code (Kyverno/OPA).
• Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, Azure; multi-cloud preference.
• GitOps and CI/CD with modern tooling; declarative promotion.
• Strong networking, Linux internals, and observability fundamentals.
• Experience with Istio/Traefik/Linkerd and monitoring stacks.
• Mentors engineers and aligns solutions with business goals.

Responsabilidades

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of platform capabilities from requirements to production.
• Set technical direction on multi-quarter initiatives with cross-functional partners.
• Architect platform-as-a-product offerings for internal developers.
• Lead security-first patterns and policy-as-code controls across the platform.
• Balance open-source and in-house tooling to scale with growth.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through reviews and coaching.
• Scale technologies and shepherd adoption from experiment to production-grade.
• Represent the team in cross-organization initiatives to maintain cohesion.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Crossplane

Terraform

Policy as Code

Kyverno

OPA/Gatekeeper

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Networking fundamentals

Linux systems

Observability stacks

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional leadership

Bachelor's Degree in CS

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

Crossplane

Terraform

Kyverno

OPA

Flux

Jenkins

Kargo

Istio

Traefik

Linkerd

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Descripción del empleo

Apple Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Cary, NC to own platform capabilities end-to-end, from requirements gathering to production deployment. You will drive multi-quarter initiatives, align engineering, security, and SRE partners, and evolve platform-as-a-product offerings for internal developers.

You’ll mentor engineers, promote security-first patterns, and balance open-source with in-house tooling to scale with our growth and protect users across Apple’s cloud footprint.