Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect

Apple • Austin, TX

70d

About The Position

In this role, you will help Apple engineering teams design and implement solutions for complex technical challenges. You will provide strategic direction, mitigate risks, and deliver solutions tailored to business needs. Whether migrating existing workloads or building advanced cloud-native architectures, you will play a critical role in improving agility, enhancing security, optimizing costs, and ensuring efficient cloud utilization. You bring a balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills to drive collaboration across the organization. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, platform, and operations teams to align on architecture and best practices. Your focus will be on guiding teams through key architectural decisions and ensuring the effective use of cloud computing services to maximize business value.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing and deploying scalable solutions architectures, with a focus on distributed systems and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their core services, including security and cost optimization best practices.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for pod-based service deployment and operations.
• Experience with cloud migrations, including refactoring existing workloads and designing new cloud-native applications.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong problem-solving and risk mitigation skills, with the ability to assess trade-offs in architectural decisions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams to drive alignment on architecture and operations.
• Excellent communication and consulting skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience leading technical engagements and guiding teams through complex cloud transformations.
• Experience as a solutions architect covering major cloud service providers and their infrastructure and platform service portfolios.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure to balance cost, security, and performance while meeting utilization targets.
• Ability to analyze large data sets to provide insights that drive architectural and operational decisions.
• Deep understanding of GPU acceleration and high-performance computing, including experience with NVIDIA GPUs like A100, H100, L40, and emerging architectures, as well as cloud-specific accelerators like AWS Inferentia, AWS Trainium, and Google TPUs.
• Familiarity with large language models (LLMs), transformer architectures, and generative AI frameworks.
• Understanding of data lake architectures and real-time analytics platforms, including open-source solutions like Apache Hadoop, Apache Iceberg, and Trino.

Responsibilities

• Help Apple engineering teams design and implement solutions for complex technical challenges.
• Provide strategic direction and mitigate risks.
• Deliver solutions tailored to business needs.
• Migrate existing workloads and build advanced cloud-native architectures.
• Improve agility, enhance security, optimize costs, and ensure efficient cloud utilization.
• Drive collaboration across the organization.
• Align on architecture and best practices with engineering, infrastructure, platform, and operations teams.
• Guide teams through key architectural decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees