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Compute Site Reliability Engineer – SRE – Kubernetes
| Company | Apple |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $135400 – $250600 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, an engineering-related field, or equivalent related experience.
- 3+ years in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure focused role
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes architecture, including Pods, Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps.
- Familiarity with Linux systems administration and command-line tools.
- Experience with scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Go.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Awareness of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn new technologies.
- Outstanding organizational and communications skills
Responsibilities
- Operate, monitor, and triage all aspects of our production and non-production environments.
- Design, build and implement innovative solutions for previous, present and future issues.
- Prepare alert handling procedures, runbooks, and collaborate with other SRE teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, minimizing downtime.
- Automate deployment and orchestration of services into the cloud environment as well as other routine processes.
- Actively participate in capacity planning, scale testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Automation advocate – you truly believe in removing operational load via software.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Puppet
- A strong sense of ownership. At the same time, you’re a great teammate who communicates clearly and transparently – Self-motivated, inquisitive, and always looking to learn more.
- Experience managing, scaling, and troubleshooting Java and Go applications
- CNCF Kubernetes Administration certification
