Site Reliability Engineer

Caterpillar; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 73,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Flexible schedule

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Caterpillar in Raleigh, NC seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for a temporary role. You’ll configure IaC across staging and production, optimize GitOps workflows, and help trim cloud costs. Must have 4+ years Docker experience and mentor mid-level teammates. The role emphasizes collaboration, trust, and growth in a fast-paced environment.

Pay ranges from $73,000 to $102,000 annually with a flexible temporary schedule and structured mentorship to support your career progression.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Docker reps, not just Docker exposure.
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates.
• Mid-level fluency in Stress Management, with GitOps on your roadmap.
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Translate a napkin idea from Caterpillar founders into a GitOps innovative prototype
• Refactor the technology module Caterpillar has been afraid to touch
• Trim Caterpillar's cloud bill by right-sizing the Python infrastructure in Raleigh, NC
• Build the GitOps tooling that makes every other Raleigh engineer faster
• Trace a technology number back through Active Listening services until it finally adds up
• Keep the Load Balancing build pipeline green so Raleigh deploys never wait on a red light

Skills

Docker

GitOps

Mentoring

Stress Management

Decision Making

Tools

Docker

Job description

This temporary Site Reliability Engineer role at Caterpillar suits the engineer who reads the changelog before upgrading and the docs before asking. For someone with 3 years and a fun-loving edge, this Site Reliability Engineer job offers $73,000 - $102,000 and real upward mobility.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Translate a napkin idea from Caterpillar founders into a GitOps innovative prototype
• Refactor the technology module Caterpillar has been afraid to touch
• Trim Caterpillar's cloud bill by right-sizing the Python infrastructure in Raleigh, NC
• Build the GitOps tooling that makes every other Raleigh engineer faster
• Trace a technology number back through Active Listening services until it finally adds up
• Keep the Load Balancing build pipeline green so Raleigh deploys never wait on a red light

What You'll Bring

• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• A NC work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• 4+ years of Docker reps, not just Docker exposure
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates
• Mid-level fluency in Stress Management, with GitOps on your roadmap
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision

Our team at Caterpillar is unfussy, collaborative, and proud to call Raleigh, NC home. Trust is the default setting at Caterpillar; you have to actively spend it to lose it.

Pay is $73,000 - $102,000, growth is structured, mentorship is personal, and the flexible temporary schedule is non-negotiable in your favor.

Right now, today, this seat at Caterpillar is genuinely empty and waiting.