DevOps Engineer

Apple - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

Apple is seeking an exceptional DevOps Engineer to join our worldwide sales team, Data Solutions & Initiatives (DSI). DSI is a product strategy and engineering team that works closely with business development and sales finance. In this position, you will join a team of DevOps engineers focused on automating solutions, securing data and infrastructures, and owning all aspects of our infrastructure to achieve high availability, scalability, and reliability. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless integration of development and operations processes, to deliver best-in-class and highly available systems. You will work with the application development teams to understand infrastructure requirements while promoting efficiency, scalability, security, and reliability throughout the software lifecycle. Your expertise in cloud platforms, automation, and infrastructure management will be crucial to the success of our projects. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing engineering processes to maximize the effectiveness of development teams by simplifying the process of building, deploying, and operating software. You will assess current application security to develop threat models and assessments, and provide guidance to the engineering organization on navigating security and compliance requirements. Your analytical and problem-solving skills will be essential, as well as your ability to communicate ideas clearly and collaborate effectively with team members. The people here at Apple don't just create products - they create the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it!

Responsibilities

• Design and implement engineering processes to maximize the effectiveness of development teams by simplifying the process of building, deploying, and operating software.
• Assess current application security to develop threat models and assessments.
• Provide guidance to the engineering organization on navigating security and compliance requirements.
• Continuously work with the engineering teams to improve reliability, implementing actionable monitoring frameworks and be part of production on-call.

Requirements

• 5+ years proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Proven experience as a software engineer or architect.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, Node or Bash.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• Proficiency in CI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar systems.
• Proficiency with logging and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk or similar.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data systems such as Hadoop, Redshift, Hive, Spark, etc.
• Experience integrating security practices into all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with preparing and executing PCI, SOC2, SOX, or other compliance audits.
• Analytical & problem solving skills, ability to communicate ideas clearly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a strong focus on teamwork.