Career Area:Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:Job Summary: The Cat Digital DevOps Engineering team supports the Cat Digital development community by providing DevOps tooling, technical guidance, standards, and best practices. As a DevOps Engineer, you will assist developers in leveraging these capabilities to accelerate their delivery of Cat Digital applications and software.
What You Will Do: As a Senior DevOps Engineer in Cat Digital, your mission is to enable effective, efficient, and secure development teams to deliver high-quality, business value to our customers Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
- Collaborate closely with several development teams to provide recommendations on DevOps best practices, Cat Digital DevOps standards, and troubleshooting of developer challenges in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Work with developers to create, optimize, and troubleshoot Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Work with developers to create, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
- Collaborate with a DevOps Engineering community to help set standards and implement initiatives across Cat Digital teams.
- Work with developers in the usage of cloud services and assist in troubleshooting solution problems, including IAM, networking and other configuration issues.
- Communicate issues, recommendations, and solutions to developers, product owners, as well as software development managers.
What You Will Have:- Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
- Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
- Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
- Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Consideration for Top Candidates:- Typically, a candidate will have 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
- Experience with AWS cloud services (such as IAM, S3, Lambda, SageMaker, API Gateway, and RDS)
- Deep understanding of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) principals and best practices
- Strong experience creating, managing, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
- Experience managing and deploying AWS infrastructure via AWS CloudFormation
Additional Details:- This position requires the candidate to be based in either Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL
- Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position
Summary Pay Range:$112,710.00 - $183,140.00
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
Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
Posting Dates:August 19, 2026 - August 25, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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