Software Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

The Core Platform and Services (CPS) team is responsible for:

Implementation of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline into multiple public cloud regions

Maintenance and operation of common platform services that can be leveraged by our SaaS solutions moving forward

Overall reliability and security of these services and the environments they are run in

Monitoring and support for these platform and infrastructure services, as well as metrics collection and reporting related to them.

Job Description

Analyzes, operates and maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Performs system integration of software and hardware to maintain throughput and program consistency. Supports, validates, and tests: structures and user documentation.

Basic Requirements

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will be responsible to maintain and support services, tools, and processes to support other Motorola Solutions' engineering teams as well as deliver solutions to our customers.

You will be working on a high-velocity, results-oriented team that leverages cutting-edge technologies and techniques. The right individual will be motivated and will have a passion for automation, deployment processes and enabling innovation. Your efforts will help to shape the engineering culture and best practices across Motorola Solutions’  Video & Services organization.

Basic Requirements:

Responsibilities will include:
Aid the team in maintenance, and support of custom software solutions utilizing the Elastic Stack and Kubernetes on Azure.
Operation of an Elasticsearch cluster, Prometheus cluster  used by our services 
Working with fellow engineers with automation tools and services to minimize delivery time and increase developer productivity.
On-call work is required for services developed by the team

Qualifications:

Must have:
BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 3+ years of professional experience respectively
Proven experience with Elastic, Prometheus, and other observability tools
Strong conceptual understanding of Kubernetes, Linux and docker fundamentals
Proven track record of working with cloud native or enterprise grade monitoring systems (New Relic, Data dog, Dynatrace etc.)
Strong understanding of cloud systems architecture and infrastructure
Experience with scripting (e.g., Python, Bash)
Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, OpenShift)
Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to work under pressure
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Expertise in building high scale systems
Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn

Good to have:
Knowledge of security best practices
Experience with performance tuning and capacity planning
Good understanding of CI/CD frameworks
Certification in relevant observability tools
Certification in Kubernetes is a plus

Preferred Qualifications
A background in Linux/Unix Administration
Prior experience being on-call for services developed by the team
Demonstrated experience developing and deploying services on Microsoft Azure

Primary Skills: 
Observability Tools (ELK Stack, Prometheus)
Server Side Language - Java Preferred 
Linux Administration and Shell Scripting
Kubernetes and Docker
Azure Pipelines - YML 
Azure Cloud Services such as Azure Event Hub, Active Directory
CI/CD
Git

Nice to have Skills:
Azure DevOps 
Front end Development - Angular 
Databases
Python
Having AZ 204, AZ 305, CLF C02 (AWS), GCP PCA are nice to have

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.