Motorola Solutions · 1 day ago
Sr. Platform Engineer - Observability / Prometheus / Elasticsearch
Schaumburg, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$110K/yr - $140K/yr
7+ years expMotorola Solutions is a global community focused on enhancing public safety through advanced communication technologies. The Sr. Platform Engineer will develop common platform services for SaaS solutions, design CI/CD pipelines, and ensure secure deployments while promoting best practices in automation and deployment processes.
Cyber SecurityTelecommunicationsVideo
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Deeply understand Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc
Scope, design, and develop custom solutions that leverage Elastic and/or Prometheus stacks on Kubernetes
Operate large Elasticsearch and Prometheus clusters (100s of nodes)
Minimize delivery time and increase developer productivity through automation
Work On-call shifts for services deployed and/or developed by the team
Maintain US Citizenship and US residency
Lead by example and participate in early morning daily standups (we work with worldwide teams)
Qualification
Required
7+ years of professional software engineering experience including 3+ years in platform engineering
US Citizenship and US Residency is required and must be maintained indefinitely. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
Must be able to obtain background clearance as required by government customer
Proven experience with building applications against third-party system APIs
Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and their CLI tools
Comfortable switching between Java, Spring framework, Golang, and/or Python
Familiarity with modern development operations tooling (Trace based application performance monitoring, docker containers, and similar)
Mentoring experience with more junior team members and leading development work by example
Pipeline automation experience
Know the difference between SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, and what good ones look like
Deeply understand Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc
Scope, design, and develop custom solutions that leverage Elastic and/or Prometheus stacks on Kubernetes
Operate large Elasticsearch and Prometheus clusters (100s of nodes)
Minimize delivery time and increase developer productivity through automation
Work On-call shifts for services deployed and/or developed by the team
Maintain US Citizenship and US residency
Lead by example and participate in early morning daily standups (we work with worldwide teams)
Preferred
A background in Linux/Unix Administration
Prior experience operating Elasticsearch and/or Prometheus clusters
Prior experience being on-call for services developed by the team
Demonstrated experience developing and deploying automation for services on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud
Helm / Kubernetes / Docker
Infrastructure / Configuration as Code
CI/CD
Linux Administration and Shell Scripting
Java 21+ with Spring Boot, Go, and/or Python
Git
Working with Third Party Vendors and Open Source Projects
Vulnerability Analysis
Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs, or GCP PubSub
IAM expertise (Azure Active Directory, AWS IAM or GCP IAM)
Mastery of Github Actions
Benefits
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!
Company
Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions creates mission-critical communication solutions and services for public safety and commercial customers.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1BKey Investors
Silver Lake
2023-01-06Post Ipo Equity· $1B
2011-01-04IPO
Leadership Team
Mahesh Saptharishi
Executive Vice President and CTO
Jack Molloy
EVP and Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
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