Cloud Network Software Engineer - Platforms

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we craft products and experiences people once couldn’t have envisioned — and now can’t imagine living without! If you’re thrilled by the idea of making a real impact, and joining a team where we pride ourselves in being one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world, a career with Apple might be your dream job!

Apple's Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) architecture team focuses on networking for the Cloud Platform. We build web services that work at scale to support infrastructure and security management and control. We are looking for an engineer in the SDI group responsible for building infrastructure and tools for cloud platforms that will craft the future. You will be part of every stage of development from concept to deployment in a startup-like environment where products are still being defined and developed, giving you the chance to influence some of the core tools used by the project.

The ideal candidate will architect, build and scale a robust ecosystem for software defined network engineering. If you are passionate about innovating and building highly available distributed systems from scratch for the substantial scale of our network infrastructure, then our team might the right place for you.

Key Qualifications

Experience in building developer platforms at scale and technology transformations and migration to one or more Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Ali is highly desired

Expert in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Pulumi, and experience implementing large scale Terraform/Pulumi IaC in public clouds is a must

Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

Network functions virtualization (NFV).

Network Design and Optimization (NDO).

Experience in Cloud Infrastructure Architecture, with working knowledge in technology domains such as distributed internet-scale web or mobile applications, complex networking implementations, highly secured workloads, DevOps, Serverless, Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, enterprise workloads, high-performance databases (SQL and/or NoSQL)

Working knowledge of cloud native architectures, with experience designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful distributed systems - either on premises or in the cloud

Certified at Solution Architect Professional (AWS) or Cloud Architect Professional (GCP) or VMWare Certified Solution Architect. Proven skills & sound knowledge of Infrastructure design (Network, Compute, Storage).

Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a global organization and across time zones

Strong ability to prioritize, deliver on time and drive closures

High tolerance for ambiguity

Description

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