Manager, Private Cloud Platforms

Technical Leadership: Act as a hands-on guide for the team, participating in architectural design and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.

On-Premise Operations: Lead the deployment and maintenance of RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters in private data center environments.

Infrastructure Design: Direct the implementation of L3/L4 networking (load balancers/firewalls) and software-defined storage solutions.

Reliability & Performance: Define and meet strict scalability, availability, and security goals for local environments.

Collaboration: Rapidly build and evolve major platform features in collaboration with Product Management and other engineering stakeholders.

Governance: Assist in reviews and audits conducted at various points in the software life cycle to ensure compliance and security.

Experience: Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Systems Architecture.

Networking/Storage: Proven experience with Layer 3/4 Networking design, firewall management, and on-premise storage protocols.

Automation Skills: Solid coding and scripting skills (Python, Shell) to automate data center operations.

Agility: Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving, and agile environment with a strong level of curiosity.

Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn

Excellent communications skills and the ability to present complex topics to nontechnical audiences

Self motivated and able to maintain focus in a pressured environment

These are the core competencies the Manager will use daily to lead the team and troubleshoot the environment.

Container Orchestration: Expertise in RedHat OpenShift (OCP) and upstream Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and management in a non-cloud environment.

Linux Mastery: Advanced Linux Administration (RHEL preferred), including performance tuning, kernel parameters, and system security.

On-Prem Networking: Deep understanding of Layer 3/4 Networking, including BGP, Load Balancing (NGINX, HAProxy, or F5), and Firewall management.

Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in Python and Shell scripting to automate manual data center tasks and infrastructure provisioning.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with Ansible or Terraform (specifically for on-premise providers like VMware or Bare Metal).

Version Control & CI/CD: Git/GitOps workflows and managing on-premise CI/CD instances (e.g., GitLab or Jenkins).

Nice-to-Have Skills (Preferred)

These skills will help the candidate excel but are not strictly required for the initial "hands-on" technical baseline.

Storage Engineering: Experience with Software Defined Storage (SDS) such as Ceph, Rook, or traditional SAN/NAS (NetApp/Dell EMC).

Virtualization: Deep experience with VMware vSphere or KVM hypervisors.

Identity Management: Integration with Active Directory, LDAP, and SSSD for centralized authentication.

Observability: Implementing on-premise monitoring stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).

Certifications: * Certified Kubernetes Administrator ( CKA ), Red Hat Certified Engineer ( RHCE ) or Architect ( RHCA )

Security: Experience with air-gapped environments and hardening standards (CIS Benchmarks/STIGs).

This position is subject to working in high security areas governed by the US Department of Justice's "Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy" and therefore requires successfully passing a more stringent fingerprint background check administered by Motorola Solutions Inc. customers.

Target Base Salary Range: $150,000 - $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.

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Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience in Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Systems Architecture with strong expertise in Container Orchestration, Advanced Linux Administration, On-Prem Networking, Automation & Scripting, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Version Control & CI/CD.

Must be able to obtain background clearance as required by government customer.

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.

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