Role Name: Infrastructure Architect (Operations Architect) — Automation Platform
Location: Sunnyvale, CA OR Austin,TX(Hybrid Mandatory)
Role Overview:
We're looking for a hands-on Infrastructure Architect to own and evolve the infrastructure that the automation (RPA/GenAI) platform runs on. This is not a hands-off management role — the architect leads the three-person infrastructure team while remaining deeply technical, personally designing and building the provisioning, environments, and access plumbing that let our bots run reliably. The person is the go-to owner for "what do the bots run on, what can they reach, and how do they authenticate," and sets the strategy for scaling from attended to unattended automation.
Key Responsibilities
· Own the automation platform infrastructure end to end — compute, environments, tooling, and reliability — and lead the 3-person infrastructure team while staying personally hands-on.
· Virtual machine provisioning — stand up, configure, and manage VMs and compute for bot runtimes and dev/test environments.
· SimCloud provisioning — provision and manage SimCloud (unattended) environments for bot execution.
· Unattended-bot strategy and tooling — define and build the strategic approach and tooling for running bots unattended at scale, and drive the migration of attended automations toward unattended.
· Application availability for bots — ensure every application a bot depends on is installed, configured, licensed, and reachable within the bot's runtime environment.
· Access and identity provisioning — own service/system-account creation, credentials, and entitlements for bots and the team across Apple's identity and access systems (AppleConnect, Access Manager / IDMS).
· Standards and repeatability — establish repeatable, documented processes and tooling for provisioning, environment management, and troubleshooting.
· Cross-team partnership — work with automation developers, security, and Apple infrastructure/IT to unblock the platform and resolve environment and runtime issues.
Must-Have Qualifications
· Deep, hands-on knowledge of Apple's internal infrastructure and how to get things provisioned within it.
· Proven, hands-on experience provisioning and managing virtual machines and virtualized/cloud compute.
· Experience with identity and access / service-account provisioning in a large enterprise (AppleConnect, Access Manager / IDMS, or equivalent IAM).
· Hands-on experience with RPA platforms (UiPath strongly preferred), including unattended bot orchestration and runtimes.
· Both genuine hands-on engineering depth and the ability to lead and mentor a small team — a builder who can also manage, not a manager who delegates all execution.
· Proven ability to work independently and drive ambiguous infrastructure problems to resolution with minimal direction.
Pay: $60.00 - $65.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
