Engineering Program Manager, Data Center Efficiency

Engineering Program Manager, Data Center Efficiency

San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Software and Services

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better.

It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.

Decommissioning Leadership
* Oversees programs that enable migration from traditional bare-metal services to cloud platforms, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and resources are managed across engineering and product teams.
* Ensure decommissioning activities align with internal policies, compliance requirements, and security best practices.
* Drives initiatives with Data Center Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product and SRE teams to deliver automated decommissioning processes, improving operational efficiency and compliance.
* Partner with engineering and product stakeholders to define roadmaps, project plans, critical paths, and delivery timelines for internally developed systems that enable LOB processes.*

Infrastructure Risk Management
* Identify and track assets that pose infrastructure risks (e.g., under any infrastructure risk in the data centers, aging hardware, unsupported systems, inefficient racks, maintenance needs).
* Applies broad system design knowledge to translate business requirements into technical (Hardware engineering) requirements, ensuring risk mitigation strategies are feasible, scalable, and aligned with engineering constraints.
* Maintain detailed documentation of risk exposures and remediation plans.
* Provides program oversight grounded in a strong understanding of engineering and data center fundamentals, including power and cooling capacity, server space utilization, and electrical infrastructure, ensuring program decisions reflect both technical and operational realities.

Reporting, Insights & Executive Engagement
* Build dashboards, reports, and forecasts that track decommission progress, risk remediation, and efficiency metrics.
* Deliver clear, confident presentations to senior leaders that influence decisions and drive alignment (i.e broad system design knowledge to translate business requests/requirements to technical requirements) (also referred to as engineering requirements), define roadmaps and create project plans
* Use milestone tracking, forecasts, and program metrics to inform engineering prioritization and drive execution decisions.
* Support and partner with engineering on internal information system-specific design decisions by identifying and articulating risks and engaging critical parties where necessary.

• In this role, you will be responsible for tracking and coordinating server decommissioning activities, ensuring compliance with risk and security standards, and supporting overall infrastructure efficiency initiatives. You’ll partner closely with operations, engineering, security, and Finance teams to ensure hardware impacted by infrastructure risks are decommissioned efficiently, securely, and responsibly.

• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in data center or infrastructure environments.
• Solid understanding of server hardware lifecycle management and infrastructure operational risk.
• Tried experience leading technical projects with cross-functional teams in a multifaceted, high-paced environment.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize.
• Proficiency in project tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Service Now, Smartsheet, Asana) and data reporting platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and time management skills.

• Familiarity with data center…