Apple is looking to automate the deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of large-scale database clusters involving hundreds of nodes, specifically focusing on dataServices clusters and supporting new projects like Apply Pay and Apple Card.
Requirements
- Experience in Cassandra Administration, including experience in cluster monitoring and troubleshooting; experience in data modeling and schema design to store Unstructured data to DB.
- Experience in security and access control configuration to secure databases; and scripting and automation for deployments and maintenance.
- Experience in Kafka Administrator, including Kafka cluster configuration and scaling for Streaming data pipelines.
- Data integration and pipeline orchestration; monitoring and error handling for streaming data flows; and security and access control for sensitive data.
- Oracle Database Tunings, including experience in SQL performance analysis and query tuning; and performance monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
- Elastic Administrator experience, including elastic search cluster configuration and scaling; data modeling and schema design for search optimization; query analysis and optimization for search relevance; and Integration with other data platforms and analytics tools.
- Experience in Cloud Database Administrator, including developing Infrastructure as code to deploy database and tools on public clouds (such as AWS RDS, MSK Kafka or Elastic Cache).
Responsibilities
- Develop automation code using Chef/Ansible for deploy dataServices clusters to multiple Datacenters.
- Perform database automation using Python, Chef, Ansible to automate the deployment of databases, and in the maintenance and patching of large-scale database involving hundreds of nodes.
- Implement Cassandra data model design and implementation for Apply Pay, Apple Card New projects and work with developers to understand the storage needs for an application and assist them with schema design.
- Assist developers in storing unstructured data using data labeling and schema.
- Develop monitoring and automation solutions for production systems and collect metric using open-source tool to analyze database.
- Monitor the collection of important information for databases such as availability, performance, and capacity, and assist in the decision-making during production issues.
- Configure and tune Cassandra, Solr, and Elastic, Memcache, Redis clusters, and perform database runs on top of Linux machine utilizing the machine resources like Memory, Disk, Network and CPU, including debugging performance issues.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
- Support production which involves strong skills with Linux operating-systems.
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
