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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Motorola Solutions
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/22/2026
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

Motorola Solutions’ Vehicle Intelligence (VI) team serves both the enterprise and public safety markets. Using the latest AI and computer vision technologies, the R&D team pioneers a diverse range of groundbreaking products and services. We enable our customers to rapidly locate vehicles of interest for a wide variety of safety and security use cases. Our global systems support at-scale cloud deployments.

The VI team is a beacon of innovation and we are dedicated to designing and developing advanced technology solutions for our customers. You’ll work with industry experts and learn how to create patents. We assign you a dedicated mentor to help you maximize your impact. We pride ourselves on a positive and supportive culture.

Join us for the opportunity to work on a varied project portfolio that will expand your technical horizons and accelerate your career growth.

Job Description

We are seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer for our DevSecOps team. The DevSecOps team is a high-impact group of 8 engineers who are responsible for supporting the national operations of our VI deployments including our VehicleManager portfolio. These are highly available 24x7 cloud applications. Your SRE role encompasses deployment architecture, continuous software delivery, observability, high availability, disaster tolerance, survivability, testing, continuous improvement, all with automation. You’ll work with a dynamic and energetic team to support and mentor you.

This role is central to defining and implementing our next-generation observability strategy. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on expert in the full observability stack, with deep experience in leveraging metrics, logs, and distributed traces to proactively ensure optimal end-user experience and system health.

The candidate should have experience with our platform’s technology stack, including Kubernetes with .NET containers. Success in the first year means the candidate contributes to availability and SRE rigor of our Vehicle Intelligence applications. Candidates must demonstrate an advanced ability to diagnose complex, multi-service production incidents using APM tools, translating deep technical analysis into actionable insights for engineering and product teams.

Day to day responsibilities include:

  • Analysis of the end user experience, system performance, availability, uptime
  • Drive the creation, deployment, and optimization of our core Observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) to ensure complete system visibility
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting the system
  • Creating workflow automation
  • Managing and creating levels of automated test

Requirements:

  • Must be a US Citizen due to security compliance for this role; working visa not accepted
  • Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science or related applied technology field
  • 3 years experience with cloud operations and Site Reliability Engineering
  • Deep understanding of Observability and Application Performance Management
  • Deep understanding of cloud architecture, microservices, pipelines/workflows, and Ansible
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft .NET, C#
  • Expertise with cloud software delivery pipelines, including GitHub
  • Ability to independently and collaboratively solve problems in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Strong communication skills, capable of conveying technical concepts to a diverse audience

Target Base Salary Range: $100,000 USD - $115,000 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.

Basic Requirements

  • Bachelors degree with 3 years of cloud operations and site reliability engineering
  • Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

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.

Salary : $100,000 - $115,000

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