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IT Architect
| Company | Caterpillar Inc. |
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| Location | Peoria, IL, USA |
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| Salary | $126000 – $189000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Progressive experience in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas of networking, application services, and distributed computing.
- Previous technical leadership or lead developer role experience.
- Practical experience in cloud computing architecture and Security work, systems, or application design, and development including container technologies.
- Proven history of designing and implementing IT solutions including Cloud (AWS and/or Azure).
- Proven experience with DevOps pipeline architecture, deployment, and tools and/or Web App development.
- Experience with tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Grafana, InfluxDB, SonarQube, Jupyter Notebook, OpenCV, Bamboo, PostgreSQL, BitBucket, Robot Framework Conan.
- Experience in Git, Python, Typescript/JavaScript preferred.
- Experience with containers, Linux environments, preferably Ubuntu.
- Proven history as a technical lead and mentor to other network engineers.
- Diplomatic ability to influence others and mix with all levels of the business.
- Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key stakeholders.
- Understanding of NIST framework and control audits.
- Ability to competently mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions.
Responsibilities
- Creating and maintaining the architecture for Kubernetes solutions, considering the specific needs and constraints of the organization.
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensuring security and compliance requirements are met within applications owned and maintained by RI IT (A&A specifically).
- Successfully lead, design, architect and deliver sophisticated solutions including Cloud (AWS, Azure), software engineering DevOps solutions (GitHub, ADO) and Infrastructure as a Code architectures.
- Provide advice and guidance to other site engineers regarding technical and design decisions and well as evaluation, and facilitation for the development of current and future architecture.
- Design for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
- Review, advise, and provide assessments on architectures produced within and outside the team.
- Design and maintain network layouts to connect disparate lab and testing infrastructure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SaFE) methodology.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, Git Actions and/or Jenkins.
- Experience with the CLI, PowerShell cmdlets, and/or REST APIs.
- Experience working with corporate security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and remediation activities (i.e.: Risk Acceptance, Security Configuration Baseline).
