Senior Platform Engineer

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

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

What Unified Communications Means at Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions designs its UC ecosystem so that frontline workers, field technicians, office supervisors, and public safety personnel can collaborate seamlessly regardless of the device they carry or the network they connect to.
Key principles include:
Any Network, Any Device: Connecting traditional two-way radios (such as MOTOTRBO or APX P25) directly to smartphones, tablets, laptops, and dedicated broadband push-to-talk (PTT) handhelds.
Instant Push-to-Talk (PTT): Expanding high-reliability, sub-second PTT audio from dedicated radio talkgroups to cellular and Wi-Fi networks.
Integration of Voice, Video, and Data: Unifying voice talkgroups with streaming video (body cameras, fixed surveillance), multimedia messaging, GPS location tracking, and telemetry.

Core Products & Services in Motorola’s UC Portfolio
WAVE PTX (Broadband Push-to-Talk)
A subscription-based carrier-independent cloud service that turns smartphones, tablets, and PCs into push-to-talk communication devices.
Allows office staff on smartphones or desktops to talk directly into frontline radio channels without needing a physical radio.
Bridges MOTOTRBO/TETRA/P25 radio systems with cellular networks.
Critical Connect
A cloud-based interoperability platform designed specifically for public safety and critical infrastructure.
Enables mutual aid and cross-agency collaboration by federating disparate communication systems (e.g., allowing police, fire, emergency medical services, and utility teams across different jurisdictions and radio frequencies to join shared talkgroups seamlessly).
Hybrid Smart Devices (e.g., MOTOTRBO Ion)
Ruggedized devices that combine the mission-critical audio and durability of a two-way radio with the multimedia and touchscreen capabilities of an Android smartphone.
Connects simultaneously to DMR radio frequencies, LTE, and Wi-Fi to keep workers connected both inside plants and out in the field.

Job Description

Role Summary

We are looking for a strong Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve the enterprise communication platform that serves as the foundation for engineering teams across the company.

Leveraging GCP, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, GitOps, and automation, you will build scalable, secure, reliable, and reusable platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery, simplify operations, and provide a consistent developer experience.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on platform engineer who can take ownership from design through production, solve complex technical problems, establish engineering standards, and work across teams to improve the overall platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, highly available, and reliable GCP platform capabilities.
• Build and evolve production Kubernetes/GKE platforms supporting business-critical workloads.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities, standards, and patterns that enable engineering teams to deploy and operate workloads consistently.
• Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, with a focus on repeatability and maintainability.
• Implement and improve GitOps and CI/CD practices, using tools such as ArgoCD and other CI/CD platforms.
• Develop automation using Python, Shell, or similar technologies to reduce manual operational work.
• Design and implement GCP networking, IAM, compute, storage, load balancing, and security patterns that support application and platform workloads.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across GCP, Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure, and platform services.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
• Build platform standards and self-service capabilities that improve the developer experience and reduce operational dependencies.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews and provide technical guidance on platform engineering decisions.
• Partner closely with Application, SRE, DevOps, Security, and Architecture teams to understand requirements and deliver platform capabilities.
• Lead or participate in major incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, technical practices, and knowledge sharing.

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a similar engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating GCP production environments.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes/GKE.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and GitOps-based deployment practices.
• Strong understanding of GCP and cloud fundamentals, including:
• Networking
• IAM and access control
• Compute
• Storage
• Load balancing
• Security
• Experience building and operating highly available and scalable platforms.
• Strong production troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Experience developing automation using Python, Shell, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience taking ownership of platform capabilities from design and implementation through production operations.
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to mentor engineers.

GCP & Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform in production.
• Strong experience operating Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in production.
• Good understanding of GCP services and concepts relevant to platform engineering, including:
• VPC and networking
• IAM
• Compute Engine
• Cloud Storage
• Load Balancing
• Cloud DNS
• Secret Manager
• Cloud Monitoring
• Experience with Kubernetes concepts including workload management, networking, ingress, resource management, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot issues across the GCP → GKE → workload stack.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Experience building reusable platform capabilities that can be consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to establish standardized patterns and guardrails without unnecessarily restricting development teams.
• Understanding of developer experience and the challenges application teams face when consuming cloud platforms.
• Experience improving deployment workflows, platform usability, and operational consistency.
• Exposure to self-service platform capabilities is highly valuable.
• Ability to reduce operational dependencies and enable engineering teams to become more self-sufficient.

Basic Requirements

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience operating enterprise-scale or multi-team GCP environments.
• Experience developing reusable Terraform modules, platform frameworks, or shared infrastructure capabilities.
• Advanced GKE/Kubernetes platform engineering experience.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with ArgoCD, FluxCD, or other GitOps technologies.
• Experience implementing platform security, governance, and compliance controls.
• Experience with GCP services such as Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Memorystore, Artifact Registry, KMS, or similar services.
• Experience with cloud migration or application modernization initiatives.
• Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

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.