Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

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.

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer (AWS DevOps Engineer) to join App Services for -CAT IT Division

The preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore – Caterpillar PSN

What You Will Do

• Experience in designing, automating, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure for highly available and scalable Java-based microservices and frontend applications hosted on S3/CloudFront.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation following modular, reusable, secure, and version-controlled patterns.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices (Maven/Gradle) and frontend builds using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Enable secure and cost‑efficient deployment workflows including blue/green, rolling, and canary deployments for microservices and frontend applications.
• Implement and enforce security directives across the application lifecycle - vulnerability remediation, dependency scanning, IAM least privilege, encryption, and secure networking.
• Manage container-based workloads using Docker, ECS, EKS, or AWS Fargate including autoscaling, load balancing, observability, and secret/config management (SSM Parameters, Secrets Manager).
• Operate and optimize API Gateway, Lambda, ALB/NLB, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and CloudWatch.
• Maintain high standards of infrastructure quality by establishing cloud best practices, architectural guidelines, and automation-first strategies.
• Work independently on complex cloud infrastructure components and contribute to platform architecture improvements.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, security, and QA teams to support continuous integration, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerts, and SLA/SLO-based observability practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and participate in off-shift/weekend support rotations as needed.
• Maintain governance over cloud resources, cost optimization, tagging, compliance, and operational excellence.
  
  

What You Will Have

• More than 8 years of DevOps experience, with strong expertise in deploying and managing Java microservices on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS Cloudformation preferred) and configuration management tools.
• Good understanding of deployment strategies including blue/green, rolling updates, and canary deployments.
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, quality gates, and security scanning.
• Experience hosting frontend applications (React/Angular) on S3 + CloudFront with best practices such as OAC, caching, invalidations, SSL certificates, and SPA routing.
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration using Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools - CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki.
• Familiarity with networking concepts related to cloud: VPC, subnets, DNS, TLS/SSL, load balancing, WAF.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps, vulnerability remediation, and secure cloud deployment practices.
• Strong Git proficiency and experience with repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, or Azure Repos.
• Hands-on experience with scripting languages like Bash or Python for automation.

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• Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing. Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation.
• This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the Hosur Facility
  
  

Desired Skills:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification is a plus.
• Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
• Experience with advanced CI/CD tooling such as ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and progressive delivery (canary/traffic splitting).
• Experience working with corporate security on cloud infrastructure security compliance and remediation activities (SCB, risk acceptance, audits).
• Experience with cloud-native container security, image scanning tools, and policies (Trivy, XRay, Snyk).
• Experience implementing SonarQube, CodeQL, Fortify, or similar security and code quality tools in CI/CD.
• Experience managing serverless architectures and event-driven patterns using Lambda, SNS, SQS, EventBridge.
  
  

Skill Descriptors

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
  
  

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
  
  

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
• Elaborates on multiple-development toolkits for traditional and web-based software.
• Has participated in development of multiple or large software products.

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• Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.
• Estimates and monitors development costs based on functional and technical requirements.
• Provides consulting on both selection and utilization of developers' workbench tools.
  
  

Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Describes similarities and differences of life cycle for new product development vs. new release.
• Identifies common issues, problems, and considerations for each phase of the life cycle.
• Works with a formal life cycle methodology.
• Explains phases, activities, dependencies, deliverables, and key decision points.
• Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.
  
  

Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Has experience with designing data exchange interfaces to and from software product.
• Describes tools and techniques for extraction, transformation and loading of electronic data.
• Cites examples of common linkage requirements for software products and vendors.
• Works with integrating software into the customer or partner framework and infrastructure.
• Participates in the development of technology interfaces and bridges.
  
  

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.
• Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
• Explains design considerations for commercial database systems, operating systems and web.
• Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.
• Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
• Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.
  
  

Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Maintains and utilizes data related to install base configurations and environments.
• Solicits customer feedback; reports and monitors bugs and implementation issues.
• Participates in defining and conducting technical acceptance tests.

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• Participates in creating technical requirements for software development and deployment.
• Explains basic environment and product configuration options.
  
  

Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in test readiness reviews, functional, volume, and load testing.
• Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.
• Tests software components for compliance with functional requirements and design specifications.
• Explains procedures for documenting test activities and results (e.g. errors, non-conformance, etc.)
• Conducts functional and performance testing on aspects of assigned products.
  
  

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

Posting Dates:

March 12, 2026 - March 25, 2026

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

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