What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer, Edge Services position at Apple?
Summary
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Role Number:200591465
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.
Imagine what you can do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. It’s the diversity of our people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
Description
oin the Edge Services team as a Senior DevOps Engineer, bringing advanced expertise in Linux systems and network infrastructure to architect, build, and optimize Apple services serving millions of users globally. In this role, you will lead efforts to design and maintain critical infrastructure components, including Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Domain Name Servers (DNS), and load balancing solutions, ensuring constant uptime and scalability.
The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of large-scale production systems, extensive experience in automation, and a shown ability to drive technical strategy. Leadership, collaboration, and good interpersonal skills are essential to guiding both multi-functional projects and mentoring junior team members.
Minimum Qualifications
- Advanced expertise in provisioning, configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.), and monitoring across internet-scale environments.
- Leadership experience in automation and infrastructure projects, including tool development using programming languages (Python, Swift, Bash, Go).
- Expertise with infrastructure and application monitoring (Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana).
- Proactive troubleshooting of sophisticated systems.
- Deep knowledge of web servers, proxies (NGINX, Apache Traffic Server), and network protocols (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP).
- Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills with experience working across distributed teams.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- 10 years of shown experience in Linux systems administration and large-scale infrastructure operations.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent extensive experience.
- Experience leading large-scale Kubernetes deployments and infrastructure automation initiatives.
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and virtualized network environments (VPCs, KVM, Libvirt, QEMU).
- Ability to shape technical strategy, solve complex infrastructure challenges, and mentor peers and junior engineers.
- A track record of delivering measurable improvements to infrastructure performance and reliability.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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