Job Description

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. When you bring passion and dedication to your job, there is no telling what you can accomplish! The people here at Apple don’t just craft products, they build the kind of wonder that has revolutionized entire industries. From amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts, it’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) team manages key business and technical infrastructure at Apple -- how we take an order online, the experience with technology in our retail stores, how much network capacity we need around the world, the processing of every credit card an iTunes customer uses, and closing the books. IS&T does it all. Our Global Infrastructure Operations group serves as the central point for monitoring, event management, and coordination/implementation of resolution efforts. We are looking for a highly motivated System Administrator who has the skills and experience to support Apple's Global Infrastructure. As a member of Apple?s Global Infrastructure Operations group, you will be responsible for supporting Apple?s Global Compute Infrastructure, maximizing uptime for services such as ?Pay, iCloud, ?Music, ?TV, ?Maps, ?News, FaceTime, Siri and more.

Key Qualifications

3+ Years experience in Linux/UNIX systems administration
3+ Years administration experience in virtualized and or containerized environments
Experience troubleshooting and isolating Software and Hardware issues within a Linux environment
Superb time management, organizational, and communication skills

Description

As a System Administrator with the Global Infrastructure Operations team, you will collaborate with team members and customers to build the relationships you will leverage in your day to day work. You will be responsible for using independent judgment and discretion to interact with internal/external teams through email, chat, and phone. You will investigate, identify and create solutions in a team environment that is highly challenging. The System Administrator will make recommendations for new processes that improve customer experience by improving the efficiency of operations work and workflows by driving automation and process improvements. Preferred Skills: - LPIC-1, RHCSA certification or higher - UNIX-related software/scripting development in one or more of the following: Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell - Experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Git, or other configuration management tools

Education & Experience

Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience

Additional Requirements

- Work hours are variable. This is a 24/7, 365 days per year environment
- Weekend and holiday work required.
- Flexibility to work in shifts based on business need is required