DevEx Engineer (DevOps)

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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.

Experience level
Senior (9+ yrs)

Role and Responsibilities
You are responsible for designing, developing and maintaining our hybrid cloud-based platform, build/test web-apps and our API portal, developer workflows and custom build/test frameworks using DevOps methodologies. 

The primary focus of this role is to ensure that the development processes and workflows for our component teams are efficient, automated,integrated and that the solution can scale to demand within the limits of our quarterly budget.

Skills and software environment

Solid understanding and proven experience of cloud-based technologies, including public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, GitHub, JFrog/Conan and tools like JIRA, Docker, Grafana, Docker and PostGres.
You are experienced with DevOps infra and build/test tools such as Git, Jenkins, GitHub and GitHub actions/GitHub apps, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS, Splunk, Crowdstrike.
You are familiar with configuring, maintaining our cloud infrastructure,  automating and interconnecting various cloud tooling, whilst observing security-first principles. You have developed workflows using web-hooks with various tooling like GitHub, JFrog, Conan, JIRA, Mend, Okta, Grafana and Vault. 
You like to explore new concepts and know how to communicate your ideas with the DX team before proving its potential with a small demonstrator.
You are passionate about working with our global developer teams, identifying their operational needs, designing high-value/low maintenance workflows for them, offering them the best developer experience. Showing them how to use the DX environment and workflows.
You are analytically strong and keen to help our devs with build- and test-problems. Pinpointing the issue and sorting out potential instabilities that pop up from time to time in our build environment. 
You are familiar with the agile scrum best practices, have adopted the agile mindset, are a strong communicator and excellent team-player. You deliver the right results and quality, on time. 
You are confident in writing code and automation scripts using using bash, python, linux, PostgreSQL, PostGres, Grafana, Vue, Typescript, Android, C++, Go, Linters.
Nice to have: Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Azure OpenAI, AWS CodeCommit).

Posting Dates:

January 30, 2024 - February 12, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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