Senior DevOps Engineer
Career Area:
Information Technology
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse teams representative of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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 don't just 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 Cat Financial
Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.
JOB SUMMARY:
Do you strive to provide creative solutions to complex problems?
Want to work with a global team and groups across the globe?
At Caterpillar Financial we are embarking on a new and exciting DevOps journey. The first phase of our plan is to implement DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Our application developers are eager to collaborate with our newly formed DevOps team to help drive automation throughout the software development lifecycle.
The Caterpillar Financial Information Services department is focused on using cloud-based technologies, modern data warehousing solutions, server virtualization, and more to deliver Caterpillar Financials’ strategy and help our customers Build a Better World.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a Senior DevOps platform engineer you will be a key member of the team that’s responsible for developing our framework for DevOps, which includes using GitHub actions for building and storing artifacts, source control, code quality, release engineering, CI/CD, and container deployment.
- Provide advanced technical infrastructure support, including problem identification and resolution and integration of technical solutions.
- Leads and mentors team members on established development and support processes, including but not limited to, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) and other related methodologies.
- Leads discussions with business partners to gather requirements for technical solutions and troubleshoots system related issues.
- Leads and mentors team members in performing advanced configurations, integrations, implementations and upgrades of existing infrastructure.
- Leads multiple projects with varying levels of complexity that may span multiple functional areas.
- Works within objectives and instructions for use in designing, testing and documentation.
- Identifies and works to automate tasks and processes with scripting and automation tools.
- Architects and designs technical solutions to meet business needs and objectives.
- Stays current with industry trends and technologies (e.g. certifications, industry groups, etc.).
- Meets the quality standards set forth by management.
- Ensures availability when necessary for off-shift and weekend support functions.
- Incorporates enterprise security standards into functional area.
- Participates in accomplishment of continuous improvement objectives for the department. Progress toward accomplishment of these is measured through maintenance of necessary measurements and analysis of associated data. Participates in the identification of problem areas and development of resolutions to address them.
BASIC REQUIREMENT:
- A 4-year college or university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 to 9 years of enterprise technology experience is recommended. Equivalent experience may be substituted for education.
- 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience building CI/CD pipelines, containers solutions, and automation.
- Intermediate to advance coding in one or more scripting languages (YAML, Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, PowerShell).
- Experience working in an enterprise technology environment.
TOP CANDIDATES WILL HAVE:
- Prior experience with GitHub Enterprise Cloud, Jenkins, Jfrog Artifactory, GitHub actions, Azure DevOps, and AWS are highly desired.
- Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, technical guidance, mentor team members and work independently or as a team.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate future direction with leadership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Advanced knowledge of and ability to independently apply two or more technical infrastructure components (e.g. Web Server, Middleware, Database, Operating System, Virtualization, Server, Storage, Backups, Network Switch and Router), including respective capacity and disaster recovery plans.
- Strong ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to design and develop technical system strategy for core business procedures and operations within functional area.
Additional Information:
Position can be Fully Remote anywhere within the United States.
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Relocation is available for this position.
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