Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (CST or EST Remote)

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 OverviewNoggin, a Motorola Solutions company, is a leader in integrated resilience management technology, offering a next-generation, cloud-based platform that combines 10 essential solutions into one unified system. Our award-winning platform seamlessly integrates operational and third-party risk management, operational resilience, business continuity, incident and crisis management, emergency management, and security and safety operations.
The Product DevOps area is responsible for designing, building, monitoring, maintaining, and improving our development, test, and production environments in AWS.
Job Description

Motorola Solutions is seeking a skilled and experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to join our team. This is a remote position, based in the US East Coast time zone, to work with a global team.

This role is primarily responsible for deploying and supporting Noggin’s systems hosted within the AWS platform. The Senior AWS DevOps Engineer is expected to bring their subject matter expertise of the AWS platform to enhance Noggin’s capabilities and support strength within the AWS hosted environment.

Further responsibilities of the role include providing best practice guidance, contributing to future state architecture, and continual improvement of our cloud hosted systems. The role should be able to confidently articulate concepts and define solutions to a wide audience within Motorola Solutions and if required with our customers and other vendors.

A strong knowledge of IT infrastructure beyond AWS is also necessary, including Linux operating systems, a strong understanding of IT Security best practices and possess a strong understanding of IT networking technologies. Exposure to Azure, GCP, and FedRAMP compliance is beneficial.

The role is part of a global team, supporting our production environments around the globe, and therefore may require the occasional coordination meeting or escalation activities on the edge, or out of, standard business hours.

Responsibilities:

• Design and enhance AWS environments for optimal performance, security, and resiliency, ensuring compliance with industry standards and certification requirements.

• Develop monitoring and performance measurement tools to detect issues early and assist in troubleshooting AWS hosted environments.

• Collaborate with product teams to align operational requirements with best practices for security, availability, and resilience.

• Create comprehensive documentation for AWS environments, including configurations, integrations, and procedures for use by operations teams and customers.

• Facilitate integration and deployment of Noggin's products, providing practical documentation for configurations and procedures.

• Perform system monitoring and apply necessary security patches, bug fixes, and enhancements to maintain service integrity and availability.

• Drive cost optimization for infrastructure, proactively incorporating feedback to identify improvement areas.

• Continuously learn and implement new technologies, advocating for process and tool improvements.

• Design and maintain automated CI/CD tools for efficient software release and deployment across development, test, and production environments.

• Manage project scopes and deployments, ensuring reliable, efficient delivery within agreed timeframes and budgets.

Required Skills & Experience:

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors Degree with 8+ years of IT professional experience

• AND 3+ years experience as a DevOps or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with AWS specifically.

• AND 2+ years experience with infrastructure-as-code using AWS CloudFormation

• AND 2+ years of experience in Bash, Python, and NodeJS

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract. 

Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

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.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.