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
Unified Communications
Job Description
Job Title
Senior Manager, Platform Engineering
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to lead and scale our platform engineering teams. This role will drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform services, while enabling product teams through strong technical leadership and execution excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership & Team Building
- Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams
- Build a high-performing, scalable organization
- Drive accountability, ownership, and engineering excellence
- Platform Strategy & Execution
- Define and execute platform engineering strategy aligned with business goals
- Drive development of core platform capabilities across Kubernetes, operating systems, and distributed systems
- Ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of platform services
- Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- Oversee design and operation of container orchestration (Kubernetes) and cloud-native platforms
- Drive platform capabilities across compute, lifecycle management, orchestration, and APIs
- Ensure strong integration between VM-based and containerized environments
- DevOps & CI/CD Enablement
- Partner with DevEx to establish and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and release processes
- Drive adoption of infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation-first practices
- Improve deployment velocity, reliability, and developer productivity
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product, DevEx, Security, and other engineering teams
- Drive alignment across teams and manage dependencies effectively
- Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of platform initiatives
- Establish strong engineering practices, metrics, and governance
- Drive continuous improvement in development, testing, and release processes
- Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Provide guidance on system design, scalability, and reliability
- Ensure alignment with central engineering standards and long-term architecture vision
Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles
- Proven experience building and scaling platform/infrastructure teams
- Strong expertise in:
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Operating systems (Linux/Unix fundamentals)
- Distributed systems and cloud platforms
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and modern development frameworks
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and execution leadership skills
Basic Requirements
Platform , virtualization, containers, kubernetus
Travel Requirements
Under 10%
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
No
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.