Junior Application Support & Site Reliability Engineer - Sales Engineering,IS&T
In short
Apple seeks a Junior Application Support & Site Reliability Engineer for its IS&T organization in Bengaluru. This entry-level role focuses on ensuring high availability, resilience, and performance of critical enterprise systems and cloud services. Responsibilities include incident triage, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, automation, and CI/CD support.
Responsibilities
- Monitor health, performance, and capacity of mission-critical applications and services.
- Respond to production alerts, outages, and system anomalies.
- Troubleshoot complex application, core system, network, and performance bottlenecks.
- Perform database-level troubleshooting, query analysis, and performance tuning.
- Identify root causes and implement permanent fixes in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Build and refine telemetry dashboards, log aggregations, and alerting rules.
- Track and uphold key reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs).
- Automate repetitive operational tasks and maintenance using scripts (Python, Bash).
- Support production deployments, CI/CD pipeline runs, and build validations.
- Execute production change requests following enterprise standards.
- Leverage GenAI to accelerate log analysis, incident documentation, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- 1-2 years of combined work experience in Application Production Support (APS), DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix internals and core system engineering concepts.
- Programming/debugging exposure in Java and Python.
- Familiarity with Java-based build tools (Maven, Gradle).
- Strong debugging and querying skills with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, MySQL).
- Hands-on exposure to observability and logging platforms (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace).
- Proven track record in incident management, triage, and adhering to change/configuration management processes.
- Basic understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Exposure to GenAI solutions and AI-assisted workflows.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI/GenAI tools for log analysis, script generation, and issue investigation.
- Hands-on experience with Docker containers.
- Foundational knowledge of Kubernetes concepts.
- Familiarity with public or private cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Basic awareness of configuration automation tools (Ansible, Terraform).
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on large-scale, consequential technology systems.
- Be part of an organization that supports 2.5 billion active Apple devices.
- Contribute to systems processing billions of secure transactions.
- Work in a fast-paced, agile engineering team.
- Exceptional opportunity for career growth in production and reliability engineering.
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