SAP Cloud Platform Engineer

Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Does the prospect of working with top engineering talent get you charged up? Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined — and now can't imagine living without. Apple's IS&T manages key infrastructure at Apple -- how online orders are placed, the customer experience with technology in our retail stores, how much network capacity we need around the world and much more.

The SAP Global Systems team within IS&T runs the Operations and Financial transactional platform that powers all of Apple functions like Sales, Manufacturing, Distribution and Financials. Think platform-as-product Our team delivers great developer experiences to our Program, Project and Development teams through curated set of tools, capabilities and processes offered through our Internal Developer Platform. We automate infrastructure operations, support complex service abstractions, build flexible workflows and curate a frictionless ecosystem that enables end-to-end collaboration to help drive productivity and engineering velocity. This is a tremendous opportunity for someone who has the skill to own initiatives and a passion to work in a highly coordinated global solution platform Join us in crafting solutions that do not yet exist

Description
As a Cloud Platform Engineer at Apple, you will be a key contributor to the design, development, and operation of our next-generation cloud platform. You will work alongside a team of dedicated engineers to build a highly scalable, reliable, and secure platform that empowers Apple's product teams to deliver extraordinary experiences. You will be responsible for driving innovation, adopting new technologies, and ensuring the platform meets the evolving needs of Apple's business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Architect, Design and implement robust cloud native solutions.

- Implement the API Led and Event driven Solutions across SAP and Non SAP Cloud Platform.

- Implement and design standard processes for security concepts that are critical for cloud native applications.

- Have hands-on understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts for designing and building scalable and resilient modern event and micro-services based systems

- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to design and implement secure and robust application architectures for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

- Understands and uses monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to continuously assess and improve system reliability, and performance

- Have passion to drive automation to streamline manual processes and enhance productivity across the organization.

- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and standard processes in DevOps and cloud computing.

Minimum Qualifications
4 - 8 years of Experience in the relevant field.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant major.

Knowledge of working with public cloud providers such as AWS or GCP

Understanding of networking concepts on Cloud, like VPCs/Subnets, Firewalls and Load Balancers.

Experience in CI/CD and configuration management systems

Familiarity with Kubernetes or Kyma Runtime.

Understanding of cloud security principles

Preferred Qualifications
Strong expertise on Cloud native applications.

A strong sense of ownership. Good critical thinking & interpersonal skills to work successfully across diverse business and technical & multi-functional teams.

Understanding of SAP BTP.

Understand complex landscape architectures. Have working knowledge of on-prem and cloud based hybrid architectures and infrastructure concepts of Regions, Availability Zones, VPCs/Subnets, Load Balancers, API Gateways etc.

Strong understanding of common authentication schemes, certificates, secrets and protocols.

Experience on IAC like Terraform / CloudFormation.

Scripting and/or coding skills needed for automation, triaging and troubleshooting . Experience on any of these scripting Python, Go, Java etc.

Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Professional, GCP Professional Architect, SAP BTP Certification is a plus.

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