Senior DevOps Engineer

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Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining a global team who cares not just about the work we do but also about each other. We are the makers problem solvers and future world builders who are creating stronger more sustainable communities. We dontjust talk about progress and innovation here we make it happen with our customers where we work and live. Together we are building a better world so we can all enjoy living in it.

About the role

Caterpillar products collect and process real-time data from sensors models and algorithms providing actionable insights into machine use. As part of the companys digital strategy the integrated MineStar family connects machines for real-time guidance tracking monitoring and control of mining fleets. MineStar also links with other mining and business systems and supports the Mining Technology Enabled Solutions vision.

Were hiring a Senior DevOps Lead to build and scale an effective DevOps culture across the Caterpillar Technology division. You will set the technical direction and operating model for CI/CD infrastructure automation and engineering enablementremoving bottlenecks standardising ways of working and improving delivery speed reliability and security.

This role combines handson technical leadership with strategic ownership of DevOps tooling automation standards and operational reliability while mentoring engineers and partnering closely with development QA security and architecture teams.

Reporting lines & key relationships

• Reports to: Engineering Manager

• Key relationships: Delivery team leads Cloud/Platform Engineering Security Architecture Release/Change Management and external vendors

• Scope: Enterprise CI/CD IaC patterns platform automation and tooling governance across multiple product teams

What youll do

• Lead DevOps strategy and standards: define reference architectures golden paths reusable templates and engineering standards for CI/CD IaC and runtime operations.

• Own the DevOps tooling portfolio: roadmap lifecycle management rationalisation and adoption guidance in partnership with Caterpillar Centres of Excellence.

• Reliability and operational excellence: establish SLO/SLI practices observability standards incident response problem management and continuous improvement rhythms. Act as the escalation point for complex platform deployment and infrastructure issues.

• Security-first delivery: embed security controls into pipelines (e.g. secret management scanning policy-as-code) and drive remediation and audit readiness.

• Enable and coach teams: mentor engineers uplift capability across squads and build a culture of ownership and automation.

• Stakeholder and vendor management: influence across engineering leadership manage priorities and trade-offs and contribute to cost optimisation and tooling/vendor decisions.

• Governance and compliance: ensure alignment with Cat Technology initiatives and applicable quality/compliance frameworks.

What youll bring

• 7 years of experience in automation DevOps or platform engineering roles with demonstrated ownership of complex systems.

• 24 years in a technical lead or senior DevOps role

• Proven experience supporting enterprisescale production environments.

• Experience working in Agile / productled delivery environments.

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure and/or GCP).

• Deep knowledge of CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab Azure DevOps).

• Strong handson experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ARM CloudFormation Ansible).

• Containerisation and orchestration expertise (Docker Kubernetes).

• Scripting and automation skills (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell).

• Monitoring and observability tooling experience (e.g. Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Splunk).

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.

• Cloud or DevOps certifications (e.g. AWS Azure Kubernetes) are desirable but not mandatory.

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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