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About this Senior Manager Software Engineering role at Caterpillar

Caterpillar · Onsite · Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

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.

CAT Digital is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – DevSecOps to lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of enterprise DevSecOps capabilities across multiple product and platform portfolios. This leader will have below responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

  • Define and execute the enterprise DevSecOps and Platform Engineering strategy aligned with CAT Digital's technology vision and business objectives.
  • Drive cloud modernization, automation, and platform transformation initiatives to improve agility, scalability, and operational resilience.
  • Champion engineering excellence by establishing standards, governance, and best practices across software delivery and infrastructure operations.
  • Leverage Generative AI and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
  • Partner with senior business and technology leaders to influence roadmaps, investment decisions, and long-term technology strategies.
  • Drive measurable improvements in reliability, deployment velocity, security posture, and cost optimization.

Organizational & People Leadership

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing organization comprising DevOps, Platform Engineering and Cloud Engineering professionals.
  • Drive talent development, succession planning, workforce strategy, and career growth initiatives.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
  • Build strong cross-functional partnerships across engineering, product, architecture, security, and operations teams.
  • Establish performance goals and coaching frameworks that enable both individual and organizational success.

Technical & Platform Leadership

  • Provide technical leadership for large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, CI/CD ecosystems, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
  • Influence enterprise architecture decisions, engineering standards, and modernization strategies.
  • Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, platform engineering, and self-service capabilities.
  • Establish best practices for security, observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and compliance.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to ensure product teams are enabled with efficient, secure, and reliable development platforms.
  • Lead initiatives focused on platform reliability, availability, incident reduction, recovery improvements, and proactive operational management.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering.
  • 5+ years leading engineering managers and large technical organizations.
  • Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale cloud transformation and DevSecOps initiatives.
  • Demonstrated utilization  of AI led efficiencies
  • Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.

 

Posting Dates:

September 11, 2026 - September 27, 2026

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

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