Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Automation, ADP Managed Services

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

Apple Data Platform (ADP) brings together Apple Cloud Data Platform, Apple Cloud AI Services, and Apple Cloud Governance Platform to deliver data, AI, analytics, and governance capabilities at Apple scale.

Within ADP, Managed Services provides the foundational infrastructure, services, and tooling required to deliver these capabilities as secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient managed services.

We are looking for a highly technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead Platform Automation within ADP Managed Services. The team provides the common infrastructure and orchestration layer used by more than 40 ADP products and services.

The mission is to build the platform automation foundation that enables ADP services to be deployed once and operated consistently across clouds, regions, and environments. This leader will set the long-term direction for the platform and lead a team of senior and staff engineers driving its evolution across AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and future cloud environments.

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Platform Automation, you will own the strategy and execution for ADP’s multi-cloud infrastructure automation platform.

ADP service teams define how their services need to be deployed. Platform Automation turns those requirements into standardized, repeatable deployments across cloud providers, accounts, regions, clusters, and environments.

The platform abstracts infrastructure complexity by automating Apple’s paved-path capabilities for cloud provisioning, Kubernetes, networking, identity, observability, security, configuration, capacity, and lifecycle management through certified infrastructure APIs and interfaces.

You will evolve the platform from its current generations of automation toward a more unified, declarative, and future-ready architecture that simplifies service onboarding, improves portability and reliability, and ensures infrastructure never becomes a barrier to delivering ADP capabilities to customers.

You will also shape how AI can transform the platform engineering experience—both by incorporating AI-powered capabilities that simplify how service teams onboard, deploy, and operate their services, and by using AI to accelerate the development, validation, troubleshooting, and operation of the platform itself.

Infrastructure security will be a first-class part of your charter. You will set the direction for infrastructure security within ADP Managed Services and partner with Apple’s central security teams to ensure approved controls and capabilities are adopted rapidly and automated into the platform by default.

You will also drive cost-conscious infrastructure decisions by design, partnering closely with ADP’s Platform Efficiency organization.

This is a customer-facing platform leadership role. You will lead multiple technical work streams and a team of senior and staff engineers, influence broadly across ADP and Apple infrastructure organizations, and establish the multi-year direction for the platform.

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, cloud platforms, or related technologies.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• Deep technical expertise in platform engineering, cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale automation.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and major public cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, declarative systems, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, deployment orchestration, and lifecycle management.
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