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Cybersecurity Manager – IAM Platform Operations

This position manages the engineering, operations, reliability, automation, and service delivery of Caterpillar's Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform ecosystem. The role leads globally distributed teams and offshore delivery partners to ensure IAM platforms are secure, dependable, scalable, and operationally efficient.

What You Will Do:

• Lead IAM platform operations and engineering teams responsible for platform availability, reliability, performance, and resiliency.
• Manage globally distributed teams and offshore service delivery partners, driving accountability, operational excellence, and customer-focused outcomes.
• Establish and support operational standards for monitoring, incident response, service restoration, platform health, and operational readiness.
• Drive automation and DevOps practices that reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and increase platform stability and scalability.
• Enable AI-powered operational capabilities that improve monitoring, operational insights, knowledge management, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.
• Define and measure service performance through KPIs, SLAs, SLOs, and platform health metrics.
• Lead platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, modernization, capacity planning, resiliency improvements, and technical debt reduction.
• Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to deliver secure and dependable IAM platform services.
• Manage vendor relationships, managed service providers, operational budgets, and workforce planning activities.
• Build and develop high-performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing platform operations, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise technology teams.
• Proven experience leading globally distributed teams, offshore delivery organizations, and managed service providers.
• Strong understanding of service management, platform operations, monitoring, observability, and reliability engineering principles.
• Experience working highly available business-critical platforms in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated success driving automation, operational transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern platform engineering approaches.
• Understanding of AI-enabled operations and practical applications of AI to improve operational efficiency and service delivery.
• Effective communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated success developing high-performing technical teams in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
  

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ITIL, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar credentials.
• Experience supporting enterprise IAM platforms and technologies.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), operational observability, and service resiliency practices.
• Experience implementing automation, orchestration, self-service, or self-healing platform capabilities.
• Experience using Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, or similar technologies to improve operational outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI governance, AI Operations (AIOps), and emerging platform engineering practices.

What You Will Get:

At Caterpillar, our goal is to provide a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to our customers' success in building a better world. Beyond hourly wages, we offer a total rewards package with benefits starting on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) and potential annual bonuses. Added benefits include paid vacation and holidays (prorated based on hire date).

Additional Info:

• The location for this role is Dallas TX or Peoria, IL.
• Relocation assistance is available.
• This role requires 5 days onsite.
• Sponsorship isNOT available.

Skills Descriptors:

• Global Perspective: Knowledge of issues, opportunities, and challenges for conducting business in the international marketplace; ability to apply global perspectives appropriately in a wide range of situations.
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
• Consulting: Knowledge of techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients, both internal and external; ability to apply consulting knowledge appropriately.
• Effective Communications: Understanding effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively send, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of proper communication behaviors.
• Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to find and keep focus on key success factors for the organization.
• Visioning: Understanding of the value of articulating an intended business outcome and ability to create and communicate a vision of the organization that motivates others to superior performance.
• Stakeholder Management: Knowledge of stakeholder management techniques; ability to systematically find stakeholders, analyze their needs and expectations, and implement various tasks to engage with them.
• Consulting Process & Tools: Knowledge of consulting process; ability to engage in planning sales, conducting research and analysis, finding solutions, and preparing recommendations.

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location,job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*

• 401(k) savings plans*

• Health Savings Account (HSA)*

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*

• Health Lifestyle Programs*

• Employee Assistance Program*

• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*

• Career Development*

• Incentive bonus*

• Disability benefits

• Life Insurance

• Parental leave

• Adoption benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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