The Apple Media Products Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology.These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books.And they do it on a substantial scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries.AMP Program Managers partner with engineers who build secure, end-to-end solutions.Thanks to Apple's unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers and Program Managers partner to get behind a single unified vision.That vision always includes a deep dedication to strengthening Apple's privacy policy, one of Apple's core values.Although services are a bigger part of Apple's business than ever before, these teams remain small, forward-thinking, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

Key Qualifications

• Outstanding organisational, project management, and technical acumen.
• Prior engineering, infrastructure, or software development project management experience for Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps / Infrastructure domains
• Experience of running Cloud and Infrastructure projects. Past experience with deployments to AWS / Kubernetes platforms would be a plus.
• Agile project experience with evidence and able to demonstrate knowledge. Preference would be given to candidates with SCRUM background and/or played the role of a Scrum Master.
• Experience at prioritising features, and technical road maps
• Proficiency and experience in delivering large scale infrastructure projects
• Process re-engineering experience.
• Self-motivated and proactive with proven creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to represent at all levels of the organisation.
• Balance multiple simultaneous end to end infrastructure, technical projects and stakeholder community comprising of various engineering teams and their partners
• Able to drive cross-functional project dependencies, and at times, multiple projects in parallel
• Data governance and data integrity experience
• Understanding of emerging concepts like machine learning and predictive analytics
• Experience at E2E project delivery; building roadmaps through to operational sustainability.
• Phenomenal facilitation skills (requirements sessions, design meetings, progress and status meetings)

Description

Manage SRE-centric efforts across independent functional teams comprised of software development, systems engineering, network, tooling, monitoring, & capacity teams. Experience in data pipelines, and data migration projectsPersistently remove ambiguity and seek to reduce complexity to ensure transparency around project goals, expectations and timelines. Develop a broad organizational perspective to facilitate strategic views around new projects and be able to facilitate discussions focusing on prioritization of existing projects. Build and maintain extensive work plans detailing complex technical projects in a fast paced engineering environment. Prove your ability to manage deadlines and meet financial, capacity and personnel constraints while successfully completing your projects on time!Controlling and reporting progress to the Project Steering Group/Project Sponsor and escalating any issues, as appropriate, in a timely manner. Initiating corrective action where vital in order to keep the project on trackIdentify inter-dependencies between the various stakeholder groups to ensure all are aligned and risks are identified, mitigated and communicated

Education & Experience

BA/BS or equivalent experience. MBA a plus.Apple’s most important resource, our soul, is our people. Apple benefits help further the well-being of our employees and their families in meaningful ways. No matter where you work at Apple, you can take advantage of our health and wellness resources and time-away programmes. We’re proud to provide stock grants to employees at all levels of the company, and we also give employees the option to buy Apple stock at a discount — both offer everyone at Apple the chance to share in the company’s success. You’ll discover many more benefits of working at Apple, such as programmes that match your charitable contributions, reimburse you for continuing your education and give you special employee pricing on Apple products. Apple benefits programmes vary by country and are subject to eligibility requirements.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace