Sr. Network Operations Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Apple; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple IS&T Infrastructure Services seeks an Operations Engineer to manage day-to-day Kubernetes-based infrastructure, firewalls, and cloud network services, ensuring high availability and scalability.

The role requires strong Linux admin skills, container tech, and experience with infrastructure-as-code. You will join a global team supporting thousands of servers and critical uptime. On-call rotations apply; this is a full-time position within Apple's IS&T.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux system administration and automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and Kubernetes.
• Proficient in Python, Ansible or Shell.
• Understanding of modern tech stacks: containers, networking, HTTP, SSL.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of Kubernetes-based infrastructure and cloud services.
• Handle incident management and on-call rotation.
• Assist with deployment and configuration of network services.

Skills

Linux administration

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Python

Ansible

Shell

Networking

Troubleshooting

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Splunk

Prometheus

AWS

GCP

AliCloud

Docker

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.

As an Operations Engineer you will be responsible day to day operations of K8 infra, Software Firewalls, VPC management, Incident management of the cloud network services to maintain high availability, scale and resilience. The successful candidate is expected to be highly self-motivated with a passion for excellence, quality and detail in driving solutions. This position requires you to be able to do on-call rotation on periodic basis

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong experience with Linux systems administration, including configuration, automated provisioning and monitoring
• Familiarity with "infrastructure-as-code" approach and tools
• Kubernetes experience, including cluster management as well as application deployment and configuration
• Proficient in at least one of these languages: Python, Ansible, Shell
• Confirmed grasp of fundamentals of modern technology stacks: containers, IP networking, HTTP, SSL
• Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies
• Strong operational and troubleshooting skills

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Experience supporting environments with thousands of servers and critical uptime requirements
• Experience with IP network design and architecture, routing, firewalls, and switching configuration.
• Experience with modern web-scale services including servers, vips, load balancers, proxies is big plus
• Experience working with monitoring and metrics platforms like Splunk and Prometheus
• Experience with 3 party cloud like AWS., GCP or AliCloud is a Big Plus