Observability Site Reliability Engineer

Apple

3.7

(120)

London, United Kingdom

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    Position summary

    esigning, engineering and running systems and infrastructure that will help millions of customers, then this is the place for you! The Observability SRE organization is specifically tasked with enabling other teams to better understand their infrastructure and services, providing world-class observability capabilities.

    Description

    Apple Services Engineering infrastructure is BIG. Operating at our scale, across multiple geographically dispersed data centers and servicing hundreds of millions of users presents unique challenges. As an SRE at Apple, you'll need to solve these problems using data, teamwork, and your own expertise. SREs at Apple own the full infrastructure stack; from device driver performance debugging to content delivery network traffic management - our responsibilities are both broad and deep. ASE runs the majority of its systems on Linux. We run a mix of open source, vendor licensed, and internally developed tools to perform functions such as system configuration management, provisioning, software deployment, logging, and monitoring. You'll learn these tools and have opportunities to improve them. Our team is collaborative; we work closely with the development teams we support to deliver the best results for Apple. We think critically and strive to balance the best solution with the need to get things done for each engineering challenge we face. Good ideas are heard and results are rewarded.

    Minimum Qualifications

    • Strong understanding of the Linux operating system and TCP/IP suite of networking protocols

    • Ability to design, author, and release code in languages like Go or Python

    • Hands-on experience managing large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management or software delivery platforms (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

    • Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills

    • Bare metal management experience

    • Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks

    • Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them through repeated iteration

    • Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning

    • Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration

    • Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment

    • Experience with the Prometheus ecosystem

    • Good understanding of infrastructure observability principles

    Education & Experience

    BS/MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (5+ years of software development or production operations experience in a large-scale environment)

    Additional Requirements

    Why you should apply for a job to Apple:

  • 66% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 66% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Company commitment that women earn the same as men performing similar work includes no salary history disclosure policy.
  • Apple University creates classes, seminars, and tools to help employees understand Apple’s culture, organization, and values.
  • Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match charitable contributions up to $10,000 a year.