Virtualization Engineer

At Apple, innovation isn’t just an idea it’s the foundation of every product, service, and customer experience. The Platform Infrastructure team sits at the heart of that innovation, building and operating the core systems that enable thousands of Apple engineers to create the next generation of technology.

As part of our team, you’ll work in a dynamic hybrid infrastructure environment that blends groundbreaking virtualization with world class reliability and security. Our engineers design, deploy, and maintain large scale Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms and enterprise grade virtualization systems that are critical to Apple’s global operations.

Come join our team!

In this role, you’ll collaborate with passionate experts who flourish with solving complex challenges, automating at scale, and redefining what’s possible in modern computing. It’s a place where technical depth meets real world impact where your contributions directly support the people building Apple’s most extraordinary ideas.

• Lead infrastructure deployments across Windows and Linux platforms, virtual and bare-metal.
• Lead, monitor, and optimize our large-scale VDI and virtualization platforms, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability.
• Solve complex cross-platform issues and act as the final decision point for support teams.
• Administer the backend infrastructure, user environment tools, and underlying hardware platforms.
• Collaborate across teams (networking, storage, HPC, app development) to drive operational excellence.
• Evaluate new tools and emerging technologies to improve service delivery.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote operational standards.
• Work in a highly dynamic and security-conscious enterprise environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or 5+ years of equivalent industry experience.
• 3+ years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure and hyper-converged environments.
• Proficiency in VMware vSphere/ESXi, with hands-on experience across other hypervisors including Hyper-V, KVM, and Open Stack.
• Proficiency with vCenter / ESXi administration and full VM lifecycle management.
• Strong proficiency in both Windows Server (Active Directory, GPO, DNS/DHCP) and Linux (Red Hat/CentOS, Ubuntu) administration.
• Experience with vGPU configurations and management.
• Skilled in golden image creation, optimization, and patch management.
• Experience with application virtualization technologies (e.g., App Vol, Liquid ware).
• Experience with server hardware management using iLO / iDRAC / ILOM interfaces, including firmware updates and hardware diagnostics.
• Understanding of network services, DNS architecture, fire-walling, and secure remote access tools (SSH, RDP, IPMI, etc.).

• Expert-level skills in VMware vSphere/ESXi, with hands-on experience across other hypervisors including Hyper-V, KVM, and Open Stack.
• Solid understanding of storage protocols (NFS, SMB, etc.) and familiarity with Net App or similar enterprise storage platforms.
• Experience working in multi-site and global infrastructure teams.

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.