Serve as a DevOps Mentor for the Apple Developer Academy DevOps Institute, helping students learn how to ship real products safely and reliably.
Co-design, implement, and continuously improve the DevOps curriculum: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud platforms, observability, security, and release engineering.
Build and maintain reference CI/CD pipelines and infrastructures that students can adapt for their projects.
Run hands-on labs, workshops, and challenge-based learning sessions that simulate real production environments (deployments, rollbacks, incident drills, cost optimisation, etc.).
Mentor squads of Academy learners, guiding them on architecture, deployment patterns, monitoring, and reliability.
Promote DevOps culture within the Academy: collaboration between developers, designers, QA, and product; champion best practices and modern tooling.
Provide technical guidance and code reviews, helping students build clean pipelines, secure infrastructure, and high-quality automation.
Establish and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting standards for Academy environments to ensure reliability and a strong learning experience.
Work closely with SQE, Apple Developer Academy staff, and other mentors to align content, projects, and assessments with program goals.
Requirements
5+ years of experience as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer in production environments.
Proven hands-on expertise in designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
Strong knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, etc), including networking, security, and cost-aware architecture.
Solid understanding of Linux systems, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools.
Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading teams, or running technical trainings/bootcamps.
Ability to explain complex topics in a clear, simple, and structured way to early-career engineers and students.
Passion for teaching, coaching, and growing talent.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills; comfortable working with both industry and academic partners.
Willingness to be on-site at BSD for classes, labs, and student mentoring.
