Infrastructure Architect (Operations Architect) - Automation Platform

Title : Infrastructure Architect (Operations Architect) — Automation Platform - W2 contract Location: Sunnyvale, CA(strongly preferred); Austin, TX - Onsite

Team: Leads the existing 3-person Infrastructure team supporting the automation platform.

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.
• Scripting/automation skills (e.g., Python, shell) for building provisioning and operational tooling.
• Willing and able to work on-site at SVE (or Austin).

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Apple experience.
• Direct experience with SimCloud and Apple virtualization/cloud provisioning.
• macOS fleet/endpoint experience (bots run on Macs).
• Track record of taking attended automations to unattended at scale.
• Familiarity with supporting services in the automation stack (e.g., Box, LDAP / Apple Directory).

Have a Great Day!

Warm Regards,

Sania Wadhwa Technical Recruiter Contact Details: 609-755-5388 Email: [email protected] 4365 Route 1 South, Suite 105 Princeton, NJ 08540 www.applabsystems.com