What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer, Retail & Marcom Engineering position at Apple and Careers?
Join Retail Engineering - the team that works on the foundational infrastructure & platforms for software used in Apple Stores and Apple Store Online.
The team is seeking DevOps Engineers who are passionate about operational excellence through automation and engineering procedures to work closely with other DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Software Engineers, Project & Product Managers, and other internal & external partners. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the integration of development and operations processes to deliver a best-in-class highly-available development ecosystem for Apple Store.
When you join Retail Engineering Foundations, you’ll help design and manage systems, frameworks, and platforms that countless Apple employees and customers rely on every day. Together, we’ll explore all the ways to improve how Apple Stores operate, freeing our employees to do what they do best, and crafting magical experiences for our customers.
Description
As a DevOps Engineer, you will design, develop, test, document, improve, and maintain DevOps systems using Go, Python, Node, and Java. You will partake in every aspect of your projects, from planning to design to implementation and future iterations, and you will play an involved role in developing solutions.","responsibilities":"The ideal candidate is self-motivated, pro-active and results-driven. Attention to detail, dedication to providing high-quality solutions modeling engineering excellence, and ability to work towards on-time delivery of projects are all crucial qualities needed to work at Apple as a DevOps Engineer.
The ideal candidate will also posses excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with various internal and external partners.
Preferred Qualifications
Expertise in implementing and operating build & test systems for Java and other languages for Poly-Repo & MonoRepoenvironments using branch-based & trunk-based development strategies (e.g. Maven, Gradle, Bazel, etc.).
Experience in implementing and operating DevOps platforms for high-scale, high-performance, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure distributed MicroServices and/or modular monolith systems developed by large & globally-distributed software engineering teams, and deployed with high frequency (e.g. continuously or daily using Spinnaker,Jenkins, GitOps etc.).
Comfortable with relational (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) databases,including knowledge of schema design and query optimization.
Knowledge of advanced networking concepts & protocols (e.g. HTTP/HTTPS, CDN, edge computing, load balancing,OSI model, etc.).
Experience in Troubleshooting to isolate the issue, determine root-cause and implement effective and time sensitivesolutions.
Minimum Qualifications
B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent professional work experience.
3 years of experience developing software in a professional capacity.
3 years proven experience implementing and operating fully-automated CI/CD platforms to build, test, and deploy containerized software applications on cloud-based Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS, etc.).
2 years proven experience with Go / Python, Node or Java including proficiency in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization techniques.
Proficiency in OOP principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns (e.g. GoF), with a proven focus on implementing testable, maintainable, and extensible DevOps systems.
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