Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

There is a lot that goes into building the most secure yet user-friendly devices in the world. We are a unique Software Development group with a charter to secure our platforms, which include iOS software, iOS Devices, and Mac. We build solutions that are used by our customers, engineering teams, and manufacturing environments. We are lookng for Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who would be responsible for deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting and developing tools for all team's solutions. The SRE position requires a mix of strategic engineering and design along with hands-on, technical work. You will have experience in being a Systems Administrator or a Programmer that has moved on to DevOps/Automation in their career. You will configure, tune, and tackle multi-tiered systems to achieve optimal application performance, stability and availability. You will work closely with the systems engineers, network engineers, database administrators, monitoring team, and information security team. For this position, strict application security and high availability requirements need to be consistent to achieve optimal solutions. This hiring team is a rare team focused on security initiatives that provides critical IT solutions across most of Appleʼs product lines. These solutions are utilized from the manufacturing space all the way to customer facing solutions. We are looking for a hardworking individual who can excel in a dynamic environment, who can be a self starter and bring their passion to ensure quality and reliability of the solutions we maintain.

Minimum Qualifications

Unix or Linux administration and performance tuning skills, 0 ~ 5 years of leading services in a large scale *nix environment. Java and JVM technologies runtime configurations and troubleshooting. Or proficient in Python/Go/other scripting language. Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture. Validated experience with Automation skills using Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Puppet.

Preferred Qualifications

Oracle DB knowledge and troubleshooting skills. Infrastructure knowledge of Networks, load balancers, Firewalls and WAF. SDLC and release engineering including source code repository and build tools including SVN and GIT. Network, System and Application Security knowledge. Application design, development, API programming and improvement using Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, spring, hibernate, object oriented analysis and design experience will be a plus. Experience with Kafka or other message queueing technology is a plus.

Description

Review hardware, software infrastructure and application functionality for optimization. Identify performance bottlenecks. Responsible for the full system lifecycle including configuration, code deployment in user acceptance test and production environments. Monitor infrastructure and application services and drive incident management. Collaborate with Apple's production support team, application engineers, project managers, systems engineers, network engineers, database administrators and QA team to effectively ensure availability and reliability of various solutions.