Apple
Senior Cloud Engineer
Austin, Texas +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cary, North Carolina - Experience
- 8+ years required; 10+ years highly desirable.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Leads the design, delivery, and operation of secure, scalable cloud platform capabilities for Apple’s Wallet, Payments and Commerce organization.
What you'll do
- Own platform capabilities end-to-end, from gathering requirements through production operation.
- Set technical direction for multi-quarter initiatives and align engineering, security, quality, and SRE partners.
- Develop security-first platform patterns and policy-as-code controls, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of production systems.
- Experience with platform-as-a-product, Kubernetes and containers, Infrastructure as Code (including Crossplane and Terraform), and security policy as code (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper).
- Public cloud expertise across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure; GitOps and CI/CD experience; networking, Linux, microservices, and distributed-systems expertise.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience; demonstrated mentoring, technical leadership, and cross-functional alignment.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of work experience is highly desirable.
- Experience with service meshes (Istio, Traefik, LinkerD) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Sensu).
Tools
Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, AWS, GCP, Azure
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