Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (CST or EST Remote)

Motorola Solutions; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 98,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Motorola Solutions seeks a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to enhance Noggin's capabilities within AWS. This remote position involves deploying and supporting systems, ensuring optimal performance, and collaborating with global teams. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS experience and strong IT infrastructure knowledge.

Benefits

Dynamic work environment

Opportunities for professional growth

Competitive salary and benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud and infrastructure management.
• Strong understanding of database technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance AWS environments for optimal performance and security.
• Develop monitoring tools for AWS hosted environments.
• Create comprehensive documentation for AWS configurations.

Skills

AWS cloud management

IT Security best practices

IT Networking technologies

Planning and prioritization

Excellent communication

Continuous Integration tools

Container platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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, schools, hospitals, and businesses. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Noggin, 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 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, IT Security best practices, and 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 worldwide, and may require occasional coordination meetings or escalation activities outside standard business hours.

Responsibilities:

1. Design and enhance AWS environments for optimal performance, security, and resiliency, ensuring compliance with industry standards and certification requirements.
2. Develop monitoring and performance measurement tools to detect issues early and assist in troubleshooting AWS hosted environments.
3. Collaborate with product teams to align operational requirements with best practices for security, availability, and resilience.
4. Create comprehensive documentation for AWS environments, including configurations, integrations, and procedures for use by operations teams and customers.
5. Facilitate integration and deployment of Noggin's products, providing practical documentation for configurations and procedures.
6. Perform system monitoring and apply necessary security patches, bug fixes, and enhancements to maintain service integrity and availability.
7. Drive cost optimization for infrastructure, proactively incorporating feedback to identify improvement areas.
8. Continuously learn and implement new technologies, advocating for process and tool improvements.
9. Design and maintain automated CI/CD tools for efficient software release and deployment across development, test, and production environments.
10. Manage project scopes and deployments, ensuring reliable, efficient delivery within agreed timeframes and budgets.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business, commerce, information technology, computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud and infrastructure management.
• Experience with AI/machine learning technologies is strongly preferred.
• Experience with AWS services such as CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, EC2, and related networking services.
• Strong understanding of database technologies.
• Experience with IT Security best practices.
• Understanding of IT Networking technologies.
• Strong planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to articulate technical issues to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work outside of business hours when necessary.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools and techniques.
• Experience with container platforms (ECS, Fargate, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Thought leadership in AWS & Systems Engineering.

Bonus Points:

• DevOps experience with Azure.
• Exposure to FedRAMP compliance.

We Offer:

• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

Target Base Salary Range: $98,100 USD - $196,200 USD. Pay within this range varies based on knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Notes: Candidate must live in a Central or Eastern Time Zone

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