Software Engineer, Linux Operations

Motorola Solutions; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive Bonus Plans

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401K with Company Match

Job summary

Motorola Solutions is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to grow our infrastructure and support a growing customer base. You will work on a small, capable team with strong company support, focusing on automation and scalable deployments.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving problems, applying automation, and delivering next-level solutions while adhering to security and reliability standards. Collaboration with DevOps, Release Management, and development teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2+ years of engineering experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain internal tools, platforms, and services for scalable deployment domains.
• Collaborate with Development and QA to automate processes and improve productivity.
• Analyze deployment, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring procedures across multi-environment setups.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure high availability, performance, and recoverability of core services.
• Integrate security best practices into operations tools and workflows.

Skills

Python

Node.js

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipeline

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. 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

Motorola's Access Control Division's mission is to improve your workday with smart office technology at your front door. We are looking for candidates who can help us build, scale and innovate as we develop our industry leading platform for access control and office automation. Strong analytical and software skills are a must in order to join our team, and we are particularly seeking candidates with experience and skills in multiple technologies, in order to contribute broadly to our team-centric approach to product development.

Job Description

We are looking for someone to help us grow the infrastructure to seamlessly support the business and its growing customer base. Engineers, customers, and end-users will all be affected by solutions developed by our team. It’s a full stack on a small team with big company support. An ideal candidate will be passionate about problem solving, will look to automation to address issues, and will ultimately envision solutions to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain internal tools, platforms, and services that enable scalable management of deployment domains.
• Work with Development and QA to improve and automate processes that currently hinder productivity.
• Analyze existing operational procedures (deployment, configuration, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, etc.) and apply them to a complex multi-environment setting looking to improve speed, consistency, and reduce manual work.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure high availability, performance, and recoverability of our core services. This includes building better alerting, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities.
• Integrate security best practices directly into operations tools and workflows to ensure all environments meet security and compliance standards consistently and automatically.
• Work closely with software development, DevOps, and Release Management teams to understand their operational needs and deliver solutions that streamline their workflows and free up their time for core development.
• Write and maintain scripts and applications in Python and Node.js to automate processes and enhance cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in cloud operations, specifically with AWS.
• Previous experience working with Software and QA Test Engineering groups and within a SLDC.
• Proficiency in Python and Node.js for scripting and application development.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI, AWS CodePipeline).
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix administration and additional scripting languages is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.

Target Base Salary Range

$100,000 - $130,000

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• 2+ years of engineering experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required.

Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position

Travel Requirements None

Relocation Provided None

Position Type Experienced Referral Payment Plan No Our U.S. Benefits include:

U.S. Benefits include

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match 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.

Learn more at www.motorolasolutions.com.