Apple

AIML - Sr Program Manager, Hybrid Cloud FinOps

Job Description

Posted on: 
February 13, 2023

As a member of the AIML PM team, you will be responsible for defining and delivering our hybrid cloud strategy across public clouds and Apple’s private cloud that supports development engineers, internal users, and billion+ customers of Apple around the world. We’re looking for people with a consistent track record of building large-scale cloud infrastructure spanning across Apple-owned and public clouds. You will have the opportunity to partner with the engineering teams and other product managers to work across the entire AIML org to build the tools, define processes, improve engineering efficiencies, provide security, and ensure resiliency for these services.

Responsibilities

-  Work across all AIML teams to provide a vision and implement to rapidly adopt optimal multi-cloud technologies to meet ambitious and often conflicting needs for best-in-class cloud infrastructure scale, performance, efficiency, ease-of-use, resiliency, and security.

-  Help build roadmaps for optimizing cloud resources across Apple-owned and public cloud options.

-  Actively own and drive programs to reduce cloud costs while increasing cloud utilization.

-  Help deliver the products to provide financial governance and transparency across the entire technology stack, ranging from big data analytics to ML training and production deployments, to our internal teams.

-  Bring deep understanding of new cloud technologies and resources to provide recommendations for adoption at Apple. These technologies could range from new classes of compute/GPU instances, storage layers, networking and security protocols, observability and telemetry, and continuous integration of Open Source technologies.

-  Work with Engineering and Operations teams to test new cloud resources for potential adoption to deliver AIML services.

-  Become the lead AIML voice and collaborate with AWS and GPC teams, including owning quarterly business reviews and driving adoption of new public cloud technologies by AIML teams.

-  Build relationships across the organization and facilitate communication between cross-divisional groups. Act as the main point of contact for internal Apple teams and external partners / collaborators.

-  Provide timely updates for all project landmarks, both org-level updates and exec-level status.

Job Requirements

  • 10+ years of Program management with experience covering as many of the following as possible: internet services, distributed computing, a large-scale & international user base, a product with external dependencies (e.g. partner data feeds), and responsibility for rapid-response actions.
  • Strong technical experience with cloud infrastructure, large scale systems, Linux/server operating systems running on containers, big data, and networking. Bonus points for past Engineering experience.
  • Career examples of hands-on involvement in delivering operational frameworks, tools, and processes that improved the customer experience.
  • Self-motivated, independent, and proactive. Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities. Can quickly (realtime) triage, prioritize, and lead multi-functional teams under pressure.
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization. High operational precision and attention to detail.
  • Highly developed drive to improve how things work, with proven track record of driving dramatic improvements for team quality, performance, agility, or effectiveness.

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