Job Details

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Oct 06, 2025

Role Number: 200623799-0157

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly
and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!

Apple is looking for an Kubernetes Platform Engineer to deploy, operate, and enhance Kubernetes infrastructure within our Silicon Technologies organization. In this highly visible role, you will have the responsibility of ensuring that Apple's world class Silicon Engineering Group has reliable, scalable, and secure container orchestration platforms needed to engineer and design the world's most advanced silicon devices and products. You will utilize your expertise in Kubernetes administration, infrastructure automation, container technologies, and platform development to build and maintain robust cluster environments that support critical engineering workflows and development processes.

Description

You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Developing and fostering partnerships with cross-functional teams is key to long-term success. The person filling this position must be a hands-on, pro-active, self-motivated administrator with strong initiative and a desire to succeed in a challenging environment. You will demonstrate technical leadership by championing cloud-native practices and implementing sophisticated Kubernetes solutions that support our large distributed environment. You'll be expected to provide architectural guidance and demonstrate expertise in cluster management, security hardening, and performance optimization. Your advanced knowledge will drive best practices and innovation across our container infrastructure while balancing operational excellence with engineering team requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of BS + 10 years of relevant industry experience

• Experience in Kubernetes architecture, administration, and security

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Linux system administration and container technologies experience

• Experience with Kubernetes package management and templating tools (Helm, Kustomize)

• Experience developing custom Kubernetes operators and controllers

• Proficiency in scripting and automation languages (Python, Bash, Go)

• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform and configuration management (Puppet, Ansible)

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)

• Experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) and performance tuning

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