Mid-Level DevOps Engineer (Azure)

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

The Cobalt Services area is responsible for the entire lifecycle of essential shared services in the Command Central cloud-native software suite, offering capabilities such as the Events Pipeline, Rules Engine, Unit and Device management, Mapping, GIS, and Messaging services, which integrate and support multiple mission-critical products across the organization. The Cobalt Services DevOps team of experts operates as a Center of Excellence (CoE) by fostering a culture of operational excellence, managing the cloud infrastructure, deployments, and pipelines, and defining and enforcing a set of best practices and automation standards.

Job Description

We are seeking a proactive Mid-Level DevOps Engineer (Azure) to join our team as a hands-on force behind our cloud infrastructure and continuous delivery transformation. In this role, you will partner directly with development teams to optimize release processes, automate cloud provisioning, and maintain containerized environments on a daily basis.

We prioritize strong foundational skills in our core technologies over encyclopedic knowledge of every secondary tool. If you bring solid core competencies in Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes, we provide the environment and resources to help you expand your tooling knowledge on the job. This role offers a people-first culture where you can pursue your potential, work with modern cloud technology, and contribute to software that helps keep people safe. Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is welcome.

Basic Requirements

Core Requirements

Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT (or equivalent practical experience) with 3+ years of hands-on DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience supporting production environments.

Language Proficiency: Advanced/Fluent English communication skills (verbal and written) for active daily collaboration with global cross-functional teams.

Operational Availability: Willingness to participate in a scheduled after-hours on-call rotation for critical incident response and platform availability.

Scripting & Automation: Strong proficiency in scripting routine tasks using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.

Cloud Infrastructure & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Microsoft Azure: Proven hands-on experience designing, provisioning, and maintaining scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.

Terraform: Solid track record using Terraform to build declarative, repeatable, and automated environments across development, staging, and production.

Platform Reliability: Experience analyzing performance bottlenecks, tracking operational metrics, and implementing infrastructure improvements to maintain continuous platform health.

CI/CD Pipeline & Delivery Modernization

GitHub Actions: Demonstrated experience constructing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.

Release Engineering: Practical application of continuous integration and deployment principles to integrate automated testing, validation checks, and feedback loops into developer workflows.

GitOps Mindset: Understanding of automated deployment patterns, declarative configurations, and modern version-controlled delivery workflows.

Container Orchestration & Reliability

Kubernetes (AKS): Hands-on experience deploying, managing, maintaining, and auto-scaling containerized workloads using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or e