Senior DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Socket.dev; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to scale and modernize our cloud platform, focusing on infrastructure operations, automation, and reliability. You will collaborate closely with the IS&T team to drive platform initiatives and ensure secure, scalable services across the enterprise.

You bring deep experience in Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and automation, with strong skills in Golang, CI/CD, and observability.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production at scale.
• Strong expertise in AWS (Azure or GCP experience also valued).
• Proficiency in Golang for building infrastructure and automation tools.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and pipeline design.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven experience in production operations and incident management.
• Experience building or maintaining observability platforms.

Responsibilities

• Scale and modernize our cloud platform with a forward-looking automation mindset.
• Improve operational excellence and reliability across services.
• Embed intelligent automation across DevOps workflows and tooling.
• Collaborate with the Senior DevOps Engineering Manager to drive platform initiatives.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes

AWS

Golang

CI/CD

Distributed Systems

Incident Management

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes Operators

Job description

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. Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question.

Description

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and platform operations, combined with a forward-looking mindset in AI-driven automation. This role partners closely with the Senior DevOps Engineering Manager to scale and modernize our cloud platform, improve operational excellence, and embed intelligent automation across DevOps workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production at scale.
• Strong expertise in AWS (Azure or GCP experience also valued).
• Proficiency in Golang for building infrastructure and automation tools.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and pipeline design.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven experience in production operations and incident management.
• Experience building or maintaining observability platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience with AI/ML or LLM-based automation in DevOps workflows.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators or controllers.
• Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms.