Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Nashville, TN

4d•$112,710 - $183,140•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer for its Enterprise Cloud Adoption team within the Information Technology Division. The role supports IaaS workloads and deploys Azure cloud technologies based on requirements gathered from business partners. The position requires independent work on complex infrastructure and systems assignments, technical leadership, and customer support. The role is onsite five days a week in East Peoria, Illinois; Irving, Texas; or Nashville, Tennessee. Relocation is available; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Ability to perform programming, project management, and development/deployment assignments without close supervision, including complex systems work.
Ability to work independently on complex infrastructure technology components used by one or more applications or systems.
Ability to work directly on complex technical problem identification and resolution, including off-shift and weekend support calls.
Ability to deploy or integrate infrastructure technology components based on customer requirements.
Ability to plan and execute integrated testing and customer acceptance testing to deliver timely, quality results.
Knowledge of relevant programming languages, program design and specification development, programming logic, logic diagrams, system analysis, testing, debugging, documentation standards, file design, storage, internal systems, and cross-platform infrastructure components.
Strong verbal and written English communication, teamwork, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
Strong problem-solving and customer-service skills.

Nice To Haves

7+ years in infrastructure operations or applications development, especially networking, DNS, application services, security, distributed computing, databases, and storage.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related Information Technology degree.
Azure certifications AZ-900, AZ-104, or AZ-500.
Experience developing or implementing logical technical architecture designs, processes, and procedures.
Experience using Agile methodology.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, specifically Azure DevOps (Microsoft VSTS).
Experience in a technical leadership or lead developer role, with practical cloud computing, architecture, systems or application design, and development experience.
Experience working with IT security on infrastructure or application security compliance and vulnerability remediation.

Responsibilities

Deploy Azure cloud technologies based on business partner requirements using programming languages, scripting tools, Azure services, and CI/CD pipelines.
Provision, scale, and secure virtual machines; manage VM images, extensions, and availability zones.
Configure Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, load balancers, VPN Gateway, DNS, routing, and hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute.
Deploy storage solutions, including Blob, Disk, and File storage; configure performance tiers, replication, and lifecycle policies.
Enable monitoring and logging using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
Manage security and vulnerabilities using RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and policy enforcement.
Implement backup and disaster recovery solutions, including Backup, Site Recovery, and geo-redundancy.
Assist customers with documentation, training, and usability efforts.
Lead development and support groups and provide programming and infrastructure technology guidance to team members.
Identify and resolve complex technical problems, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
Deploy or integrate infrastructure technology components based on customer requirements.
Perform integrated and customer acceptance testing with careful planning and execution.
Provide training on relevant programming, systems, testing, documentation, storage, and cross-platform infrastructure topics.