Apple

Sr Manager - Infrastructure, SRE, & AI Platforms - Services Special Projects

Apple$160K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership
  • 6+ years managing multi-layered engineering organizations
  • Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes
  • Operational experience with AI/ML systems
  • Deep understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles
  • Exceptional technical communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Define and build infrastructure strategy for innovation and reliability
  • Lead a multi-tiered engineering team for foundational platforms
  • Establish standards for operational excellence and SRE
  • Translate business needs into scalable platform designs
  • Cultivate a strong engineering culture focused on automation
  • Drive continuous improvement and technical ownership
  • Manage capacity planning and operational delivery

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence long-term technical strategy
  • Leadership role in a global engineering organization
  • Work in a dynamic environment with cutting-edge technologies
  • Chance to be a key strategic partner in the organization
  • Focus on building an innovative and efficient engineering culture
Full Job Description
We are looking to hire a Senior Infrastructure, SRE & AI Platforms Manager to help set the long-term technical strategy, organizational structure, and operational roadmap for global, mission-critical infrastructure platforms on the Services Special Projects team.

This position requires a rare blend of deep technical domain expertise-spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes, and AI workload orchestration-and proven organizational leadership managing large, globally distributed engineering teams.

Description

In this role, you will be responsible for defining and building infrastructure strategy that balances continuous innovation with high reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. You will lead a growing, multi-tiered team of engineers who are responsible for foundational platforms that power large-scale consumer and enterprise workloads.

Beyond operational delivery, you will establish standards for operational excellence, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and capacity planning. You will be a key strategic partner, translating complex business imperatives into scalable platform designs while cultivating a strong engineering culture focused on automation, technical ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

MS Degree in Computer Science or related degree and 12+ years of experience of progressive engineering leadership experience building, scaling, and operating mission-critical infrastructure platforms and global services.

Management & Leadership Scope: 6+ years managing multi-layered engineering organizations (manager-of-managers) with a proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining top-tier technical talent across global sites.

Cloud & Distributed Compute Expertise: Demonstrated hands-on and architectural mastery of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platform engineering, and hybrid cloud operations (AWS, GCP, private data centers).

Accelerated Computing & AI Infrastructure: Direct operational and architectural experience running large-scale systems for AI/ML training and inference workloads, including utilization optimization, scheduling, and high-performance storage/networking.

SRE & Production Operations: Deep background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, telemetry, observability frameworks, disaster recovery, and managing 24/7 high-availability infrastructure at scale.

Technical Communication: Exceptional ability to seamlessly bridge executive strategy and low-level technical trade-offs-communicating vision to executive stakeholders while driving detailed technical discussions with principal engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

Large-Scale Enterprise Provenance: Experience leading core infrastructure or foundational platform SRE for a global, tier-1 technology organization operating at massive scale.

Multi-Engine Database & Data Infrastructure: Familiarity overseeing diverse open-source and proprietary storage/data ecosystems (e.g., Cassandra, FoundationDB, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL).

Financial & Capacity Governance: Proven competency managing large-scale infrastructure investments, capital expenditures, operational budgets, capacity forecasting, and cloud optimization strategies.

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.

Apple Careers

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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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