Sr. Platform Engineer - Observability / Prometheus / Elasticsearch
About The Position
Our Platform Engineers develop common platform services that can be leveraged by our SaaS solutions design and implement CI/CD pipelines with DevOps principles instrument services according to Site Reliability Engineering best practices support secure and highly available deployments of their work around the world The right individual will teach best practices in automation and deployment processes and exemplify innovation through reduction of toil and improvement of daily work. Their efforts will increase the reliability of the platform that measures reliability. They will help to shape engineering culture and best practices across Motorola Solutions' Video and Software organization.
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
- Foundational Skills 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
- Nice to have Skills: 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
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)
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
