Cloud Operations Analyst

Caterpillar; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Career development

Incentive bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar's Cat Digital is seeking a Cloud Operations Analyst to provide platform stability and production support for its autonomy-focused platform. You will manage on-call incidents, incident management, and coordinate resolution across teams.

You will drive continuous improvement through runbooks, monitoring, and collaboration with engineering, product, and operations. This role is based in the Chicago area with potential offices in Peoria or Irving.

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting skills with cloud apps and data pipelines.
• Experience with AWS monitoring and observability tools.
• Customer-focused mindset and ability to translate needs into solution.
• Effective communication skills for status updates and stakeholder alignment.
• Systems thinking across distributed services to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and manage production incidents impacting AWS/Cloud services.
• Own incident tickets through triage, resolution, and closure.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to diagnose issues and coordinate fixes.
• Lead or contribute to root-cause analyses and follow-up actions.
• Ensure platform reliability via monitoring, security, and best practices.
• Drive reliability and operational readiness across cloud platforms.
• Understand end-to-end technical and business flows to support production services.
• Develop and maintain runbooks for operational support.
• Lead knowledge transfer sessions for on-call readiness.

Skills

Technical Troubleshooting

Monitoring & Observability

Customer Focus

Effective Communications

Systems Thinking

Tools

AWS CloudWatch

OpenSearch/Kibana

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Datadog

Splunk

ThousandEyes

Python

Bruno

Postman

curl

ServiceNow

Job description

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.

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.

Job Summary

As a Cloud Operations Analyst, you will provide platform stability and production support for Caterpillar’s autonomy focused platform 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.

What You Will Do

• Respond to and manage production incidents impacting AWS/Cloud services and APIs.
• Own incident tickets through the full lifecycle, from initial triage to resolution and closure.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, product, and operations teams to diagnose issues and coordinate fixes.
• Lead or contribute to root cause analysis and ensure follow up actions are identified and tracked.
• Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, security, and operational best practices.
• Drive reliability, stability, and operational readiness improvements across cloud platforms.
• Understand end to end technical and business flows to support production services effectively.
• Develop, maintain, and improve actionable runbooks for operational support.
• Lead knowledge transfer sessions to ensure support teams are ready for production support.

What You Will Have

• Technical Troubleshooting: Strong troubleshooting skills with experience analyzing cloud applications, APIs, integrations and data pipelines using logging, monitoring and observability tools to identify and resolve complex production issues.
• Monitoring & Observability: Hands on experience with AWS monitoring and observability tools, including Amazon CloudWatch, OpenSearch/Kibana, and enterprise observability platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, Splunk, and 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.
• Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results.

Considerations For Top Candidates

• Experience supporting production grade, customer facing platform on AWS/cloud environments, including incident response, on-call support, monitoring and operational reliability across distributed teams.
• Proficiency in Python (or equivalent scripting languages) to automate workflows.
• Experience with API testing/clients (Bruno, Postman, curl).
• 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.
• Experience leveraging AI/automation tooling (e.g., agentic workflows, GitHub Copilot, MCP) to accelerate triage, RCA, and support workflows.
• Ability to trace issues to source code and CI/CD pipelines across distributed services.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical issues into clear status and impact updates for stakeholders.
• Effective partnership with engineering, product, and platform teams to resolve issues and improve operational efficiency.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and ability to proactively improve support processes, tooling, and documentation.

Additional Information

This position will have the option to be based out of our Chicago, IL; Peoria, IL or Irving, TX offices.

Summary Pay Range

$97,530.00 - $146,290.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

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

Posting Dates

October 16, 2026 - October 25, 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.