Multi-Cloud Solutions Architect

Apple • Austin, TX

69d

About The Position

The Cloud Infrastructure Business Operations team sits at the intersection of business and technology and we enable Apple's engineers to deliver incredible experiences to our customers. We collaborate with engineers and business partners from across Apple and provide cloud infrastructure guidance and decision support. 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.

Requirements

• Advanced Degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong problem-solving and risk mitigation skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication and consulting skills.
• Experience leading technical engagements and guiding teams through complex cloud transformations.
• Experience as a solutions architect covering major cloud service providers.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure to balance cost, security, and performance.
• Ability to analyze large data sets to provide insights for architectural and operational decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Deep understanding of GPU acceleration and high-performance computing.
• Experience with NVIDIA GPUs like A100, H100, L40, and emerging architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud-specific accelerators like AWS Inferentia, AWS Trainium, and Google TPUs.
• Understanding of data lake architectures and real-time analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with open-source solutions like Apache Hadoop, Apache Iceberg, and Trino.
• Knowledge of large language models (LLMs), transformer architectures, and generative AI frameworks.

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 or build advanced cloud-native architectures.
• Improve agility, enhance security, optimize costs, and ensure efficient cloud utilization.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, platform, and operations teams to align on architecture and best practices.
• Guide teams through key architectural decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees