SRE: Data Platform & Multi-Cloud Infra

Apple Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate Apple Data Platform's multi-cloud infrastructure. You’ll manage data pipelines, ML/AI services, and Kubernetes clusters across AWS and on-prem environments, delivering reliability at scale.

You'll collaborate with internal engineers, implement monitoring and GitOps workflows using Flux and Crossplane, and drive improvements to reduce toil while expanding the platform’s capabilities for internal customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in CS or eng or equivalent.
• 1-4 years in SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure role.
• Proficient in Python; Golang a plus.
• Kubernetes admin: RBAC, scheduling, autoscalers, PDBs, cluster-wide troubleshooting.
• Strong communication and composure during incidents.
• Solid grounding in SRE principles with on-call/production support.

Responsibilities

• Operate, monitor, and triage production and non-production environments across the ADP portfolio.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedule, including occasional weekday/weekend coverage.
• Own operational health of multi-cloud infra as SME — AWS, EKS, cross-cloud networking.
• Provide Slack-based support; screen, triage, and resolve issues.
• Debug IAM permission errors, storage quotas, namespace separation, and cluster-wide disruptions.
• Partner with dev teams to onboard new services; design monitoring, alerting, dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Maintain and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code (Crossplane, Terraform) and GitOps (Flux) workflows.
• Build automation and self-healing tooling to reduce toil.
• Identify, escalate, and resolve production issues to protect reliability.
• Collaborate with SRE and dev partner teams to align execution with goals.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

RBAC

GitOps

Crossplane

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Spark

Flink

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Crossplane

Terraform

Flux

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, Texas, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate Apple Data Platform's multi-cloud infrastructure. You’ll manage data pipelines, ML/AI services, and Kubernetes clusters across AWS and on-prem environments, delivering reliability at scale.

You'll collaborate with internal engineers, implement monitoring and GitOps workflows using Flux and Crossplane, and drive improvements to reduce toil while expanding the platform’s capabilities for internal customers.