Systems Architect, Retail and Marcom Engineering
Core
Define technical direction for cloud infrastructure, delivery platforms, and AI-driven automation to scale digital experiences for Apple customers.
Role type
Senior IC Systems Architect (Cloud & AI Infrastructure)
Builds
DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD platforms, cloud architecture, and AI/ML workload delivery systems
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, AI/ML operations, and developer tooling
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Cloud platform strategy (AWS/GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi), CI/CD design, systems programming (Python/Go), MLOps architecture, LLM infrastructure, AIOps, chaos engineering
Preferred skills
End-to-end MLOps platform design, LLM fine-tuning and RAG pipelines, FinOps for AI, internal developer platforms, edge computing, security governance
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Python, Go, Vector databases
Responsibilities
Define multi-year technical roadmap for DevOps and cloud architecture; Establish architecture standards and platform blueprints; Lead infrastructure tooling and AI automation framework adoption; Oversee major infrastructure migrations and re-architectures; Collaborate with SRE and Security to design reliable, observable platforms; Mentor senior engineers and conduct architecture reviews; Develop strategies for AI/ML workload delivery including model training and inference serving
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence