Software Engineer, Linux Operations

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 OverviewMotorola'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:

• Tool Development and Improvement: 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.

• Automation: 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.

• Reliability Engineering: Apply SRE principles to ensure high availability, performance, and recoverability of our core services. This includes building better alerting, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities.

• Security and Compliance: Integrate security best practices directly into operations tools and workflows to ensure all environments meet security and compliance standards consistently and automatically.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: 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.

• Scripting and 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: $84,000 - $99,000 USD

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.

#LI-SC1

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or with 1+ years of technical experience

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position

Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanYes

Our 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. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.