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Description
Apple Customer systems Operations team is looking for a highly skilled and motivated OPS Engineer (Operations Engineer) to join our operations team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of business-critical, globally distributed systems. You will design and develop automation solutions to streamline system sustenance, monitoring, and operational workflows, while collaborating closely with support and engineering teams.
Responsibilities

• Your responsibilities will span incident management, capacity planning, deployment safety, and operational tooling. Ideal candidates will combine strong software engineering skills with a passion for operational excellence, and thrive in a fast-paced, change-driven environment passionate about continuous improvement and detailed delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of production support practices for handling large-scale, mission-critical web and iOS applications in a 24x7 onshore/offshore model;
• Experience in troubleshooting, analyzing logs, building metrics, and operational dashboards;
• Fundamental understanding of distributed systems (e.g., microservices, messaging brokers) and Linux operating system internals;
• Demonstrated ability to lead SEV1/SEV2 incident bridges, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive problem management initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading global operations teams in large-scale enterprise environments, with collaboration and leadership skills;
• Expertise in observability and monitoring using tools such as Hubble, ExtraHop, Splunk, and similar platforms;
• Foundations in networking (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, OSI Model, Subnetting, Load Balancing);
• Hands-on engineering background with Java/JEE, REST APIs, Swift/Objective-C, databases (schema design, data access), and modern frontend technologies (React, JavaScript).
• Proficiency in supporting scalable, event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), large distributed systems, and high-availability platforms.
• - Strong automation skills with Python/Linux, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes/EKS (deployment strategies, scaling, troubleshooting), and self-healing systems.
• - Experience applying AI/ML for operational automation (anomaly detection, predictive alerting, automated incident response).

Skills Required