Senior Platform Engineer (RedHat and Kubernetes)

Motorola Solutions Systems Polska is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build services, tools, and processes supporting engineering operations in bare-metal and virtualized on-premise environments focused on Public Safety systems.

• 3+ years of professional experience in Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focusing on on-premise environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience deploying and maintaining production-grade Kubernetes or RedHat OpenShift clusters on bare-metal or virtualized private hardware.
• Strong command of Linux internals including storage, networking, and process management.
• Hands-on experience with Data Center Networking fundamentals including switching, routing, load balancing, and firewall rules.
• Experience automating workflows with Python, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Ability to work in an agile environment managing mission-critical Public Safety systems.
• Strong communication skills for documenting architectures and mentoring juniors.
• Technical skills including expert-level RedHat OpenShift (OCP) & Kubernetes, advanced Linux Administration (RHEL preferred), L3/L4 Networking, BGP, load balancing with NGINX/HAProxy, automation with Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, version control with Git & GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux).

Nice to have:

• Software Defined Storage (Ceph, Rook, ODF).
• Virtualization with VMware vSphere or KVM.
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.
• Certifications: CKA, RHCE.
• Security experience with CIS Hardening and STIG compliance in air-gapped environments.

• Lead the end-to-end deployment of RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on private hardware.
• Build and maintain "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) pipelines to automate server provisioning, OS hardening, and application deployment.
• Serve as an escalation point for troubleshooting complex networking, storage, or container orchestration issues.
• Implement security best practices such as CIS hardening and SELinux in air-gapped or highly secure on-premise environments.
• Optimize Linux kernel parameters and network configurations for high-throughput, low-latency Public Safety applications.
• Provide technical guidance and conduct code/configuration reviews for the engineering team.