DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Golang (Ex-Apple Preferred)

Title: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Golang (Ex-Apple Preferred)

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Position: Contract

JD:

Onsite role

Job Title: DevOps / SRE Engineer -Golang (Minimum 3 years of previous Apple experience (Ex-Apple))

Role Descriptions:

• Support and administer large-scale Kubernetes platforms hosting mission-critical applications with high availability requirements

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitOps methodologies (Flux), Jenkins, and GitLab for automated build, test, and deployment workflows

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and Ansible to provision AWS resources (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53, Lambda)

• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker, Helm, and Kustomize

• Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus and Grafana; define and track SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets

• Perform incident triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and resolution of complex network, platform, and application issues

• Participate in on-call rotations, responding to high-severity production incidents and restoring services within defined SLOs

• Harden Kubernetes clusters through network policies, secrets management, and secure container image practices

• Automate operational processes through scripting in Python, Bash, and Shell

• Support messaging and data platforms including Kafka, Redis, and RabbitMQ

• Collaborate with Development, QA, and Product teams to resolve environment issues and reduce release bottlenecks

• Optimize cloud infrastructure costs through right-sizing, autoscaling, and workload scheduling

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform/cloud engineering roles

• Strong hands-on experience administering Kubernetes in production environments

• Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible for IaC and configuration management

• Solid experience with AWS core services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route 53)

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure Pipelines) and GitOps workflows (FluxCD)

• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go

• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)

• Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes packaging tools (Helm, Kustomize)

• Strong troubleshooting skills across network, platform, and application layers

• Experience participating in on-call rotations and production incident response

Preferred Qualifications

• CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

• Experience with NGINX/Emissary, Spinnaker, SonarQube, Nexus artifact management

• Experience supporting AI/ML workload deployments on Kubernetes

• Experience with large-scale cloud migration initiatives

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics/Communications Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)

Skills: Digital: Cloud DevOps ~AWS DevOps and Automation

Experience Required: 6-8