Senior Solution Architect, Traffic Infrastructure ASE

ASE Traffic builds and operates Apples managed load balancing service mesh and gateway offerings for routing and securing traffic across borders trust zones and agentic workflows. Were looking for a Solution Architect to be the primary technical partner for engineering teams across Apple who are integrating with our Traffic this role you will work directly with customer teams to understand their traffic and networking requirements translate those requirements into concrete integration plans and identify and help close feature gaps along the way. Youll need a strong foundation in networking fundamentals hands-on experience with Kubernetes ingress/egress patterns and working knowledge of Envoy and service mesh concepts. Above all you should enjoy working closely with people translating ambiguous requirements into clear technical solutions and driving those solutions to completion.

As a Solution Architect on ASE Traffic you will act as the bridge between our platform and the engineering teams who depend on it. Youll meet with customer teams to understand their current traffic architecture application topology and networking requirements then design integration paths onto Apples managed traffic products.

Partnering directly with customer engineering teams to gather and clarify their traffic load balancing and service mesh requirementsnAssessing customer Kubernetes deployments and designing appropriate ingress/egress integration patternsnAdvising customers on Envoy configuration and mesh adoption best practicesnIdentifying gaps between customer requirements and current Traffic product capabilities and working with engineering to prioritize and close themnProducing clear technical solution designs migration plans and documentation that customer teams can execute againstnReviewing customer integration designs for correctness resiliency and adherence to traffic best practices nServing as an escalation point for customers running into integration issuesnWorking cross-functionally with Traffic engineering SRE and partner teams to ensure customer solutions are supportable long-termnContributing to internal documentation reference architectures and self-service guidance to scale solutioning beyond 1:1 engagements

Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP DNS load balancing TLS/mTLS)nHands-on experience with Kubernetes especially ingress/egress traffic patternsnWorking knowledge of Envoy and/or other service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd or others)nStrong ability to gather requirements from customers and translate ambiguity into a clear technical plannExcellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical solutions to engineers of varying seniority

Experience with load balancing strategies service discovery and rate limiting at scalenExperience with distributed systems design and analyzing systems for performance or reliability issuesnFamiliarity with API design for network-related services and inter-process communication (sockets gRPC message queues)nExperience supporting live customer-facing services in a production environmentnAbility to navigate ambiguity manage competing priorities and drive multi-team initiatives to completionnAbility to foster trusting relationships across a diverse set of internal customer teamsnExperience with traffic solutions over 3rd-party cloud providers is a plus