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 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 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:

• Bachelor's degree in business / commerce / information technology / computer science, or equivalent qualifications or experience.

• A minimum of 3+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer

• Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud and infrastructure management

• Experience with AWS services such as CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, EC2 and related networking services

• A strong understanding of database technologies

• Demonstrable experience with IT Security best practices

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