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Senior DevOps Engineer (US REMOTE)

Motorola Solutions · Chicago, IL

Posted Jun 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026

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Likely interview questions for this role

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Behavioral

Tell me about a time you had to design or evolve a CI/CD pipeline for a team that hadn't automated much before. What did you build and what pushed back on it?

experience actually introducing pipeline discipline into a team, not just using an existing one

Describe a schema migration you ran on a live production database. What could have gone wrong and how did you protect against it?

whether they've actually handled risky migrations with rollback plans, not just theory

Tell me about a production incident you owned end to end, from the first alert to the postmortem. What did you personally do differently afterward?

ownership and follow-through, since the posting explicitly calls out taking full ownership of problems

You'll be working across infrastructure, application developers, and possibly full-stack Java work. Tell me about a time you had to collaborate with developers who didn't think about infrastructure the way you do.

cross-functional communication skill, since the role sits between infra and application teams

Technical

Walk me through how you'd structure a Terraform codebase for a system that has to run in multiple AWS accounts or regions for high availability.

whether they think in reusable, modular IaC patterns versus writing one-off scripts

How would you set up replication and failover for a MySQL database that needs to stay available even during a region outage?

depth on RDBMS high availability beyond just running mysqldump backups

This role touches public safety data under government contract requirements. How do you think about hardening infrastructure and access controls when the data is this sensitive?

awareness of compliance-driven security practices like FedRAMP, least privilege, and audit logging

What's your approach to writing a disaster recovery plan, and how do you actually test that it works before you need it?

whether DR is a real practiced procedure for them or just a document nobody has run

How do you decide what to monitor and alert on for a new service, and what's an example of an alert you added after being burned by not having it?

practical experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Grafana versus generic answers

Give me an example of debugging a network issue using something like tcpdump or Wireshark. What was actually wrong?

hands-on networking troubleshooting skill rather than surface familiarity with the tool names

Situational

Say a Kubernetes deployment behind Helm charts starts flapping in production, pods crash-looping every few minutes, and customers are noticing. What's your first move and how do you narrow down the cause?

a real troubleshooting sequence under pressure, not a checklist recited from memory

Suppose a developer team wants to bypass your pipeline's security scanning step to hit a deadline. How do you handle that conversation?

how they balance velocity against security compliance without just saying yes to pressure

If you inherited a legacy system with almost no infrastructure-as-code and a lot of manual configuration, how would you prioritize bringing it under control without breaking production?

judgment on sequencing risky modernization work against the need to keep a live system running

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The full job description

As published by Motorola Solutions.

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 Rave organization within Motorola Solutions is responsible for SaaS products supporting the safety mission of public and private entities. We help our customers engage with responders, households, schools, businesses, employees, students and other stakeholders to deliver critical communications, coordinate response, and exchange life-saving information. The solutions we create apply exciting technologies such as geospatial visualization and analytics, high throughput communications, artificial intelligence, and numerous integrations with Motorola and partner systems. As a team member within the Rave organization, you will be exposed to many other solutions offered by Motorola Solutions, the most trusted name in public safety Job Description We’re looking for a highly skilled AWS DevOps Full-Stack Engineer with expertise in IaC (Terraform), Helm, MySQL, Kubernetes, and CI/CD Pipelines. You will play a key role in building, maintaining, securing and deploying scalable cloud infrastructure and systems. Responsibilities: • Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure • Automate deployment, scaling and monitoring of systems on that infrastructure • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement CI/CD pipelines • Build and manage containerized applications • Provision and support configuration of relational databases with an emphasis on high availability, security and reliability • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance and reliability • Contribute to the creation and operation of robust disaster recovery and backup strategies • Manage developer tooling • Ensure compliance with regulatory, compliance and security frameworks • (Optionally) develop and support full stack Java-based applications Required Skills: • Citizenship: Must be a US Citizen. This requirement is due to specific U.S. Government Contract Mandates and access to sensitive public safety data. • Experience with containers and container orchestration tooling (Kubernetes / Helm / Docker) • Experience designing and deploying solutions to cloud environments (AWS) • Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform or similar) • Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps) • Experience with DVCS tooling (Git, GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps) • Experience with RDBMS systems including managing schema evolution, migration, replication and disaster recovery (MySQL or similar) • Experience with Linux including scripting (Bash) Preferred Skills: • Experience with AI/machine learning technologies is strongly preferred. • Familiarity with TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting tools (WireShark, TCPDump, SNGrep, nslookup) • Awareness of compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, CCCS) • Experience with SIP/RTP • Experience with developer tooling (Artifactory, Sonar, Gradle) • Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK Stack or similar) • Knowledge of secure coding practices, security frameworks, and tooling (e.g., OWASP, NIST, CIS, Prisma Cloud/Twistlock, Mend/WhiteSource) Soft Skills: • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills • Effective communication and teamwork abilities • Self-motivated with a passion for continuous learning • Ability to take ownership of problems and deliver complete solutions Target Base Salary Range: $140,000 USD - $170,000 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. Note: Candidate can live anywhere in the United States. #LI-MP2 #LI-REMOTE Basic Requirements • 8+ years of cloud infrastructure experience • AND 5+ years of software engineering/development experience • AND 2+ year of Kubernetes and Docker experience • Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.  Travel Requirements None Relocation Provided None Position Type Experienced Referral Payment Plan Yes 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.

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