Manager-Platform Engineering

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were 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 thats 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

Job Description

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 acrossKubernetes operating systems and distributed systems

  • Ensure scalability reliability and performance of platform services

• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

  • Oversee design and operation ofcontainer orchestration (Kubernetes)and cloud-native platforms

  • Drive platform capabilities acrosscompute lifecycle management orchestration and APIs

  • Ensure strong integration between VM-based and containerized environments

• DevOps & CI/CD Enablement

  • Partner with DevEx to establish and optimizeCI/CD pipelines automation frameworks and release processes

  • Drive adoption ofinfrastructure 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 onsystem design scalability and reliability

  • Ensure alignment with central engineering standards and long-term architecture vision

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in software engineering with leadership skills

• Proven experience building and scalingplatform/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 withautomation infrastructure as code and modern development frameworks

• Strong communication stakeholder management and execution leadership skills

Basic Requirements

CI/CD build systems

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

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 youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.