Systems Administrator- Fleet Operations Engineering
Role Overview
Systems Engineer on Apple's Fleet Operations Engineering team supporting large-scale compute infrastructure.
The Operations Center monitors events, manages incidents, and coordinates resolution efforts.
The team supports services including Apple Pay, iCloud, Music, TV, Maps, News, FaceTime, and Siri.
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Role overview
Systems Engineer on Apple's Fleet Operations Engineering team supporting large-scale compute infrastructure.
The Operations Center monitors events, manages incidents, and coordinates resolution efforts.
The team supports services including Apple Pay, iCloud, Music, TV, Maps, News, FaceTime, and Siri.
Responsibilities
- Investigate, identify, and implement solutions to infrastructure issues.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams and customers through email, chat, and conference calls.
- Recommend process improvements that enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, and workflows.
- Drive automation and continually improve repetitive operational processes.
- Support infrastructure uptime and coordinate incident resolution through the Operations Center.
Minimum qualifications
- At least 3 years of experience building, automating, analyzing, and troubleshooting critical large-scale Linux servers in virtual and physical environments.
- Extensive Linux experience, especially Oracle Linux, RHEL, or CentOS.
- Experience with GitHub, KVM, Docker, Kubernetes, and configuration management systems.
- Understanding of Linux system security and encryption; experience with either Python or Go.
- Experience with bare-metal servers and understanding of Linux operating system hardware.
- Strong debugging across application, network, and host layers, plus a firm understanding of networking protocols.
- Deep understanding of information security, regulatory compliance, IPTables, and SELinux.
- Ability to perform root cause analysis and quickly resolve or mitigate issues.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; flexibility to work shifts.
Preferred qualifications
- BE or B.Tech in IT or Computer Science is preferred.
- Puppet or Ansible automation and configuration management skills are preferred.
- Kernel debugging familiarity is a plus.
- A self-starter who is motivated to learn, works comfortably in a team, and demonstrates ownership and urgency.
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