Compute Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$225,600–$338,400 / yr
Posted
164 days ago
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TL;DR · Compute Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager

The ASE Compute - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager leads a team responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of private cloud infrastructure powering internal services. This manager will set technical direction for operational excellence, mentor engineers, and drive automation to eliminate manual processes. Day-to-day responsibilities include owning incident response, establishing SLOs, managing capacity planning, and partnering with architecture teams to influence system design. The role requires deep experience operating large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments and troubleshooting across the full stack, including networking, OS, and container runtimes. Candidates should possess skills in configuration management tools like Puppet or Ansible, and experience with Java, Go, or Python. The work involves managing bare-metal provisioning and cloud-native observability tools like Prometheus and Thanos to solve complex infrastructure scalability problems.

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers managing large-scale Kubernetes and compute infrastructure.
  • Own the reliability, availability, and performance of mission-critical cloud platform services.
  • Drive incident response, post-incident reviews, and systemic improvements to reduce operational toil.
  • Influence system design for reliability and scalability by partnering with software and architecture teams.
  • Establish and refine SRE practices including SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and change management.
  • Champion automation to eliminate manual processes through tooling and self-service capabilities.
  • Manage on-call rotations and ensure sustainable operational coverage for the team.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience leading infrastructure or SRE teams.
  • Deep experience operating large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environments in production.
  • Strong systems background troubleshooting across network, OS, container runtime, and application layers.
  • Experience with configuration management at scale using Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent.
  • Track record of building high-performing teams through coaching and clear expectations.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives to completion.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, bare-metal provisioning, Java/Go/Python, or CKA certification (preferred).

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