Manager of Platform Engineering

Manager of Platform Engineering

Location:

Charlotte, NC (Onsite)
Reporting to:
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
About Velocitor Solutions Velocitor Solutions is a leader in enterprise fleet management and mobile innovation, celebrating over 25 years of profitably growing technology. We go beyond standard telematics by offering a comprehensive, managed ecosystem—managing over 200,000 mobile assets for Fortune 500 clients across North America. Our V-Track platform integrates GPS tracking, AI-powered video telematics, and real-time data to drive safety and efficiency.

We are in a pivotal phase of growth and looking to expand technology team.

Why Join Velocitor Solutions Take charge of the platform that enables 24x7 fleet operations for leading enterprises, where your leadership drives both customer success and business growth. In this role, you’ll stay hands-on with technology while shaping strategy, building, and mentoring a high-performing team as Velocitor scales and modernizes its tech stack. Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll collaborate with executive leadership, tackle challenges like Kubernetes at scale, CI/CD modernization, and platform reliability, and ensure engineering excellence in a dynamic, growth-focused environment.

Role Summary The Manager of Platform Engineering leads the engineering team responsible for Velocitor’s customer-facing platform—owning Dev Ops, site reliability, and deployment practices that keep the platform available, secure, and scalable on Azure. This hands-on management role balances technical execution with team leadership, including building and mentoring a high-performing engineering team, advancing CI/CD and Kubernetes maturity, embedding SRE and security practices, and supporting the company’s rapid growth.

Key Responsibilities Leadership & Strategy Build, mentor, and retain a team of platform engineers across Dev Ops and site reliability engineering, providing technical coaching, career development, and performance management.

Own platform strategy, roadmap, and execution to meet business goals and customer SLAsEnsure adherence to engineering KPIs (availability, MTTR, deployment frequency, change success rate, incident volume) and present regular updates to the CTO.Take full ownership of platform strategy, roadmap, and execution aligned with business objectives, product needs, and customer SLAs.Establish operational cadence: incident reviews, change advisory board, release reviews, team retrospectives, and continuous improvement culture.

Platform Operations & Architecture Own the design, implementation, and 24x7 operation of Velocitor's hybrid infrastructure (Azure + on-premise) supporting both production and internal corporate systems.

Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency across all environments.

Hands-on architecture and implementation of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity management (Azure AD/Entra, RBAC), storage, backup, monitoring, and observability.

Drive cloud optimization initiatives: rightsizing, reserved capacity, architectural improvements, and cost governance across Azure workloads.

Define and enforce platform standards for networking, security, identity, logging, alerting, and operational discipline.

Dev Ops & Site Reliability Engineering Lead Dev Ops and SRE transformation: implement CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep), containerization (Kubernetes), and modern deployment practices

Hands-on implementation of Kubernetes clusters, container orchestration, service mesh, and cloud-native architecture patterns

Establish SRE principles: error budgets, SLOs/SLIs, blameless postmortems, observability (metrics/logs/traces), and reliability engineering culture

Build and…