Decommission Operations Specialist, Data Center Operations
Apple
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Sparks, United States of America · Posted October 28, 2026
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Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.
Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
Infrastructure Services is part of IS&T and the foundation of Apple's global network operations — managing data center equipment and systems to deliver compute, storage, and networking services for teams across Apple, including its internal developer community. From individual facilities to a worldwide network, Infrastructure Services ensures the technology underneath everything works without question.
Apple’s Data Center Operations team supports the infrastructure that powers Apple services at scale. As an Decommission Operations Specialist, you’ll work cross functionally to develop and ensure the execution of efficient material end-of-life precesses to include True Waste, asset recycling or resale, consumable materials recycling and media management. You’ll assist with documentation and help train support-level staff all while maintaining a clean, organized, and audit ready work environment.