Cloud Operations Analyst

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 the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

As a Cloud Operations Analyst, you will provide platform stability and production support for cloud-based services including on-call support, incident management, and operational readiness. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining runbooks, coordinating technical resolution across teams, and driving continuous improvement, while serving as the primary technical liaison between Caterpillar platform teams, product partners, and support organizations.

Systems Thinking: Strong understanding of cloud-hosted applications, APIs, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks. Ability to diagnose and resolve platform and integration issues, identify root causes, and proactively enhance operational processes, tooling, and documentation.

Technical Troubleshooting: Experience troubleshooting access, session management, and application issues. Experience supporting production grade, customer-facing platforms in complex, multi-team environments, including on-call and incident response. Strong experience managing incidents end-to-end using ServiceNow within enterprise ITSM frameworks. Proven ability to drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement to enhance system reliability.

Performance Monitoring Tools: Hands on experience with Azure monitoring tools (Application Insights, Log Analytics/KQL, Azure Monitor) and observability platforms (Apigee, Kibana, AppDynamics, ThousandEyes).

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

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.

Proficiency scripting in Python and/or PowerShell to build automation and runbooks-as-code.

Experience with API testing/clients (Bruno, Postman, curl) and REST integrations.

Experience leveraging AI/automation tooling (e.g., agentic workflows, GitHub Copilot, MCP) to accelerate triage, RCA, and support workflows.

Experience supporting multi-region cloud services and familiarity with identity platforms (Entra ID, Azure B2C, IAM/IdentityIQ, PingFederate, MFA).

Ability to trace issues to source code and CI/CD pipelines across distributed services.

Ownership of release/deployment and rollback processes (slot swaps, pipeline triggers, staged rollouts).

This position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL or Irving, TX

Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position

Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.

This position will require up to 0-25% travel

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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