Senior Autonomy Engineering Specialist (DevOps Architect)

What You Will Do:

• Drive DevOps Architecture Strategy: Lead the definition and evolution of scalable DevOps architecture, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, environment provisioning, observability, security integration, and performance optimization strategies for embedded and distributed systems.
• Translate Business and Operational Needs into Solutions: Partner with customers, Product Owners, and System Architects to analyze delivery workflows, define requirements, and design end-to-end DevOps solutions that enable reliable, secure, and efficient software delivery for complex onboard applications.
• Enable Integration Across Systems: Provide expertise on integration between development, build, test, and deployment pipelines with onboard/embedded systems, cloud platforms, APIs, and infrastructure—ensuring robust automation, data flow, security, and system reliability.
• Establish DevOps Standards and Reuse: Drive consistency across MineStar products by creating and governing reusable pipeline templates, automation frameworks, infrastructure modules, and best practices that improve efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.
• Lead End-to-End DevOps Delivery: Oversee and contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and operation of CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling, ensuring high-quality, secure, and performant delivery of embedded and connected applications.
• Champion Quality and Best Practices: Define and promote automated testing strategies (unit, integration, system, and release validation), security, monitoring, and reliability practices (SRE) to ensure robust and resilient software delivery.
• Provide Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers across teams on DevOps principles, conduct architecture and pipeline reviews, and influence technical decisions to elevate overall engineering and operational maturity.
• Own Architecture Artifacts and Governance: Develop and maintain DevOps architecture documentation, standards, metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR), estimates, and validation artifacts to support alignment, scalability, compliance, and long-term sustainability.
• Dependency Management: Define and govern dependency and artifact management practices using tools such as Conan to ensure build reproducibility, version consistency, and scalable package distribution across embedded and software platforms.
• Other duties as assigned by Caterpillar management.
• What You Have (Basic Requirements):
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (software, electrical, computer) or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience in lieu of degree.
• Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
• 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.
• Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
• Experience with Python, or C++ for DevOps automation, tooling, and system integration.
• Strong experience with C++ build ecosystems, including toolchains, cross-compilation, CMake, and Conan for dependency management.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of DevOps architecture including pipeline orchestration, environment strategy, configuration management, and release/versioning practices.
• Experience deploying and managing applications across cloud, edge, and on-premise platforms using containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Ability to optimize pipeline performance, build efficiency, deployment speed, and system reliability in embedded or distributed environments.
• Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
• Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.
• Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design.
• Demonstrated extensive professional experience as a web application developer and/or UI Architect (or equivalent) delivering production software.
• Demonstrated experience developing embedded web applications using HTML5 and Angular.
• What Will Set You Apart (Preferred Qualifications):
• Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, C++) for automation, tooling, and system integration.
• Strong experience in the C++ ecosystem including toolchains, cross-compilation, CMake-based builds, and dependency management using Conan.
• Experience with scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) for pipeline and workflow automation.
• Knowledge of networking protocols and security (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, SSL/TLS).
• Experience with Linux-based or real-time operating systems in embedded or distributed environments.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker); exposure to modern runtimes (e.g., WebAssembly) is a plus.
• What You Will Get:
• Through it all, we are one team – creating and delivering world-class components and solutions superior to the competition. Learn more about the Caterpillar Experience.

About Caterpillar:

Benefits:

• Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
• 401(k) savings plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Health Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
• Career Development
• Incentive bonus
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement
• These benefits also apply to part-time employees
• This position requires working onsite five days a week.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Posting Dates:
• October 30, 2026 - November 12, 2026
• 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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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (software, electrical, computer) or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience with Python, or C++ for DevOps automation, tooling, and system integration.
• Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, C++) for automation, tooling, and system integration.
• Experience with scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) for pipeline and workflow automation.
• Experience with Linux-based or real-time operating systems in embedded or distributed environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker); exposure to modern runtimes (e.g., WebAssembly) is a plus.