We’re seeking a Senior SRE Engineer to design build and scale a modern DevOps and SRE ecosystem from the ground up. This role demands deep hands on experience, strong architectural thinking and the ability to establish GitOps driven cloud native CI/CD platforms using cutting-edge technologies. The ideal candidate will serve as a foundational engineer and technical leader defining standards and reliability practices throughout the organization.
You should have a passion for programming and a solid conceptual understanding of the operating environment including JVM operating systems file systems and network protocols. Technical expertise strong communication skills and teamwork are essential as this role involves collaborating with both technical and non-technical groups within Apple and externally with our supply chain partners.
Minimum Qualifications
7+ years of software engineering experience
Hands on experience with at least one object oriented language, ideally Java or JEE
Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible and Terraform
Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash and Lua
Proficiency in relational and non-relational database fundamentals, including hands-on PL/SQL experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytical skills are essential for troubleshooting Java and JVM technologies runtime configurations.
- Familiarity with modern web services architectures and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure and distributed storage systems such as ScaleIO and Amazon S3 is crucial.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools including Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana and CloudWatch is valuable.
- Understanding of CI/CD, release engineering and DevOps principles is important.
A good grasp of various machine learning algorithms and patterns is beneficial.
Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms is also important.
In-depth experience in writing, understanding and reverse engineering regular expressions to detect patterns is highly desirable.
A strong understanding of TLS, mTLS and industry-standard secure communications protocols is essential.
Researching and understanding vulnerabilities and threats from open forums and translating them into system design and implementation to detect and prevent them is a key skill.