Apple

ASE Compute - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager

Apple$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years engineering management experience in SRE or infrastructure teams
  • Proven track record in managing large-scale Kubernetes environments in production
  • Strong full-stack systems knowledge for troubleshooting
  • Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet or Ansible at scale
  • Skilled in building high-performing teams with a focus on coaching and psychological safety
  • Proven ability to complete cross-functional initiatives
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team focused on reliability and operational excellence
  • Set the technical direction for scalable infrastructure improvements
  • Drive automation initiatives to enhance platform performance
  • Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams on critical projects
  • Cultivate a sustainable team culture around reliability engineering
  • Ensure the infrastructure meets service level agreements (SLAs)

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on Apple's critical services infrastructure
  • Hands-on leadership role in a cutting-edge engineering environment
  • Collaboration with world-class engineers
  • Impact on large-scale systems at unprecedented growth levels
  • Focus on team culture promoting sustainability and career growth
Full Job Description
We are looking for an SRE Manager to lead a team that keeps this infrastructure reliable, performant, and ready for the next order-of-magnitude growth.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set the technical direction for reliability and operational excellence while mentoring engineers, driving automation, and partnering closely with software and infrastructure teams to ship improvements that matter. You will have direct impact on the platform that underpins Apple's most critical services. You will work alongside world-class engineers solving problems at a scale few organizations encounter - and you will build a team culture that makes reliability engineering sustainable and rewarding.

3+ years of engineering management experience leading infrastructure or SRE teams Deep experience operating large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments in production Strong systems background - comfortable troubleshooting across the full stack (network, OS, container runtime, application) Experience with configuration management at scale (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent) Track record of building high-performing teams through coaching, clear expectations, and psychological safety Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives to completion Strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience with third-party cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management at datacenter scale Experience with Java, Go, or Python services in production Understanding of cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Splunk, or similar) CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent hands-on certification Experience running infrastructure as an internal managed service with defined SLAs

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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