Senior Systems Engineer- Apple Services Engineering

Apple Service Engineering (ASE) Systems Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills to join us in designing, building tools, and supporting large-scale infrastructure systems that can scale to meet the demands of Apple’s Services offering. You will collaborate with world-class engineers to design, implement, and support operating system technologies that support large-scale Linux systems. We address complex problems using both open-source and in-house tooling to support security and business initiatives. You will contribute to our team’s initiative to promote automation and self- service tools for service democratization and enforcing responsibilities with respective app teams. Minimum Qualifications 8+ years of overall industry experience in systems engineering with focus on cloud computing 5+ years of experience managing enterprise services in a large-scale *nix environment Experience operating large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure as a managed service Understanding of cloud computing architectures, systems design and performance optimization Extensive Linux experience, especially with Oracle Linux, CentOS etc, in addition to a good understanding of Linux systems administration Experience with revision control systems like GitHub, CI/CD unit testing, and configuration management systems Automation and configuration management skills using Puppet, Ansible, with a passion for automating things rather than doing them twice Hands on experience in Python, and/or Go with large installment systems Skilled at working cross-functionally to achieve project success Desire to build, grow and mentor a team Strong philosophy of continuous improvement Strong sense of ownership wanting to understand how things work and resolve root causes Ability to encourage and foster a culture of visibility and transparency across teams Strong verbal and written communication skills Technical (Engineering or Computer Science) BS/MS degree or equivalent work experience Preferred Qualifications Automation advocate - you truly believe in removing operational load via software Self-motivated, inquisitive, and always looking to learn more Experience with hosting services in container environments Information Security and Regulatory Compliance knowledge Must be an expert and have in-depth professional experience with cloud operations, with a focus on “infrastructure-as-a-service” (compute, storage, and network virtualization)