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. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. 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 the development and operations of critical cloud infrastructure and platform services, in support of Motorola Solutions public and hybrid cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for public safety customers. This team is part of Motorola Solutions Software Enterprise division, which offers secure, reliable and efficient team communications, workflow and operational intelligence solutions for mission critical public safety and enterprise markets throughout the world.

Job Description

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

• Design and implementation of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline into multiple public cloud regions
• Development 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

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will be responsible to develop 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 design, and development 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 developers 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 or 2+ 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, MicroShift)
• 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, Enterprise Apps etc
• 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

Basic Requirements

Must have:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 3+ years or 2+ years of professional experience respectively
• Proven experience with Elastic, Prometheus, and other observability tools
• Strong understanding of cloud systems architecture and infrastructure
• Experience with scripting (e.g., Python, Bash)
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, MicroShift)
• 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 Red Hat ecosystem or Kubernetes is a plus

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.