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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.

Your Impact 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.

We are seeking a skilled Senior IT Analyst Applications (Senior Azure Cloud Engineer )to join Azure Platform Services -CAT IT Division.

We are currently seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Azure Platform Services team within the Caterpillar Information Technology Division. In this role, you will build, deploy, and operationally support Azure IaaS solutions on a global scale, with emphasis on SAP workloads.  You will act as a technical subject matter expert, contributing to cloud modernization, platform reliability, and automation. This role supports mission‑critical systems, demands strong engineering discipline, and offers opportunities to collaborate with senior architects and cross-functional cloud teams.  If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking team, apply now.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Whitefield PSN Office, Bangalore, India

What you will do

Cloud Engineering & Delivery

• Build, migrate, and manage Microsoft Azure IaaS solutions, including SAP Workloads, VMs, VNets, App Services, Functions, Databases, Storage, and Integration Services.
• Deploy or integrate cloud technologies based on business partner requirements using automation-first approaches.
• Enhance, follow, and contribute to enterprise cloud designs, processes, and governance.

Technical Support & Problem Solving

• Serve as a technical SME for cloud infrastructure and platform services, providing troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning across a complex global network.
• Support solutions running on Azure and work closely with senior engineers, architects, and global teams.
• Assist teams with documentation, training, onboarding, and platform usability.

Automation & DevOps

• Build automated solutions for infrastructure deployment using PowerShell, Python, YAML, ARM Templates, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub), Azure CLI, VBS, Java, NodeJS, JSON, Bash, Azure Portal.
• Contribute to standardized templates, repeatable deployment processes, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices.

Security, Compliance & Operational Excellence

• Apply secure-by-design standards, identity best practices (Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault), and network security patterns.
• Participate in LTA (Logical Technical Architecture) reviews, operational excellence practices, and cloud governance alignment.
• Support monitoring, logging, disaster recovery, backup, and vulnerability remediation.

 What you will have 

• 7+ years of Azure Cloud experience in application development, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure core services:
• IaaS (VMs, VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Storage, ASR)
• Experience automating deployments using PowerShell, Python, JSON, YAML, CI/CD, Azure DevOps (Microsoft VSTS).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and global network environments.
• Experience supporting or building cloud architectures in production environments.
• Ability to perform development/deployment assignments without close supervision.
• Ability to work directly on technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Ability to deploy or integrate infrastructure technology components based on requirements gathered from customers.
• Ability to perform integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• Experience with Azure infrastructure operations or applications development, with special emphasis in areas of SAP workloads, networking, DNS, application services, security, distributed computing, databases, and storage
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related information technology degree
• Azure Certifications such as AZ-120, AZ-900, AZ-104, or AZ-500
• Experience using the SCRUM methodology
• Experience working with IT security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and security vulnerability remediation activities
• Strong verbal and written communication (English), teamwork, analytical, and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving and customer service skills

Skills desired:

Core Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Manages application-related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.
• Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.
• Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.
• Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.
• Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.
• Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.
• Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.
• Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.
• Troubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.
• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.
Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
Level Working Knowledge:
• Tracks problems associated with the quality and effectiveness of application software.
• Researches the benefits and drawbacks of an organization's application software.
• Drafts application software usage for the department's needs.
• Provides instant support for end users of application software.
• Implements a specific application software under the supervision of management.

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
• Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
• Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
• Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
• Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
• Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

System and Technology Integration: Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Designs and develops applications or technology interfaces and bridges.
• Documents existing best practices for system or technology integration processes.
• Identifies and quantifies risks of proposed alternatives to a system or technology integration initiative.
• Delivers training on major issues, interfaces, considerations and potential pitfalls and risks.
• Discusses with line areas on data, technology and application integration issues.
• Advises others in how to integrate projects across multiple technologies.

System Testing: Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Verifies the proper flow of transactions across all input, output and storage channels or devices.
• Evaluates interoperability of new systems with existing systems during the beta testing phase.
• Supervises the testing of complex, multi-platform and distributed applications.
• Designs processes to ensure that the system meets and maintains requirements and expectations.
• Coaches end users on the development of test data and test scenarios for system validation.
• Manages the execution of test plans, including resources, strategies, schedules, processes and tools.

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Discovers, analyzes, and resolves hardware, software or application problems.
• Works with vendor-specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities.
• Handles calls related to product features, applications, and compatibility standards.
• Analyzes code, logs, and current systems as part of advanced troubleshooting.
• Records and reports specific technical problems, solving processes and tools that have been used.

What you will get:

• Work Life Harmony
• Earned and medical leave.
• Relocation assistance

Holistic Development

• Personal and professional development through Caterpillar ‘s employee resource groups across the globe
• Career developments opportunities with global prospects

Health and Wellness

• Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage
• Employee mental wellness assistance program

 Financial Wellness

• Employee investment plan
• Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.

 Additional Information:

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers

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

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