Sr Network Engineer, Infrastructure Services

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be part of a team focused on enabling experiences for Apple employees and customers. Our team works across Apple to ensure the network provides secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity for Retail and Enterprise while enabling business  this role, you will translate business and operational requirements into engineered network solutions for Apple’s global Retail Stores and Enterprise environments.

You will evaluate and qualify networking technologies, develop implementation-ready designs, validate solutions through lab and field testing, and establish the technical standards needed to deploy them globally.

You will collaborate with network architects, engineering teams, operations organizations, security partners, business owners, vendors, and senior leadership. The successful candidate combines deep networking expertise with excellent judgment, structured problem-solving, and the ability to clearly communicate complex technical decisions to both technical and executive audiences.

This is a senior engineering role with broad scope and deep technical responsibility. You will take strategic direction, business use cases, and high-level architecture and convert them into solutions that can be qualified, standardized, deployed, operated, and supported  will explore emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluate networking hardware and software, and build technical solutions and frameworks that address Apple’s unique Retail and Enterprise requirements.

You will lead network equipment qualification from requirements and test-plan development through lab validation, pilot deployment, certification, documentation, and production readiness.

The role requires an understanding of how network services directly affect the employee and customer experience. You will balance performance, availability, security, operational simplicity, lifecycle, supportability, cost, and scalability when making engineering recommendations. You will also serve as a trusted technical partner to senior leaders and stakeholders, helping teams understand tradeoffs, resolve technical challenges, and make well-informed decisions.

The scope and scale of the environment create an opportunity to engineer network solutions that make a meaningful impact across Apple.

• Understand business priorities, operational challenges, and technology strategies across Retail and Enterprise environments.
• Partner with business owners, Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Operations to translate business and experience needs into technical requirements and measurable success criteria.
• Develop secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable wired, wireless, WAN, remote-access, and network-security solutions.
• Convert architectural direction into detailed designs, configurations, bills of material, implementation plans, and operational acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and communicate tradeoffs involving performance, availability, security, complexity, cost, lifecycle, and supportability.
• Establish reusable engineering standards and design patterns that enable consistent global network deployments.
• Develop qualification strategies and perform functional, performance, scale, resiliency, security, interoperability,…