Software Engineer: DevOps/Automation Engineer
Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product.
Come join our small team of highly focused engineers who play a key role in the success of the silicon validation team. We’re looking for people who enjoy designing solutions to solve problems rather than focusing on completing tasks as fast as possible.
You will perform work associated with developing and supporting release tooling and infrastructure that serves hundreds of Apple engineers. Your success here has a direct impact on products used by billions of users!
- Your strong troubleshooting ability will be used daily. You will take steps to isolate issues and determine root cause(s) through investigative analysis, communicate your findings to the team, and take action to correct the root cause of the issues
- You will draw upon your experience to ask "what are we trying to accomplish?" instead of "how would you like this implemented?"
- You will work with various groups within the department to get to the root of the problem which is driving a request
- You will value innovative solutions, rather than ones which merely satisfy a list of requirements
- You are an independent problem-solver who is self-motivated to achieve group objectives while feeling comfortable asking other for assistance
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in relevant field with 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field.
- Experience in a CI/CD or SRE role
- Experience deploying, configuring, and operating Jenkins at scale
- Strong object-oriented development skills in Python and Java (or another JVM-based language)
- Experience with a configuration management system (Salt/Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Salt is a big plus)
- Jenkins Scripted Pipeline and Shared Library development
- Experience deploying and operating Gerrit
- Experience managing VMware infrastructure (ESXi/vSphere)
- Experience with artifact lifecycle management
- Experience working with log aggregation tools (Splunk, ELK stack, etc)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (such as Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, etc)
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