Cloud Platform Engineer

Caterpillar - East Peoria, IL

Full-time

Hybrid - East Peoria, IL

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join their Platform Services team within Caterpillar IT. This role focuses on building out Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with an emphasis on security, privacy, and compliance. The engineer will collaborate with architects and business partners to provide solutions using GCP, while also staying current with GCP technologies and recommending continuous improvements.

Responsibilities

• Providing consulting on best practices for Google Cloud Platform.
• Deploying or integrating cloud technologies based on requirements gathered from customers.
• Assisting customers with documentation, training, and usability efforts.
• Serving as an Enterprise Administrator for Caterpillar's GCP environment.
• Monitoring and ensuring the GCP environment at Caterpillar is secure and compliant.
• Automating resource provisioning in GCP using Terraform.
• Staying current with GCP technologies and best practices and providing recommendations for continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 3+ years of public cloud experience within an Enterprise environment - GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure.
• 2+ years of experience working with Google Cloud Identity Platform (or equivalent AWS or Azure experience) in an environment that enforced roles based access controls and least-privilege access.
• Preferred experience with GCP services, including Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, IAM, AI, and Cloud Storage.
• Knowledge of Cloud security standards and principles including Identity and Access management.
• Experience with data warehousing technologies, such as BigQuery or Snowflake.
• Experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Associate-Level Cloud Certification (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience with Azure DevOps.

Benefits

• Development opportunities with emerging technologies.
• Inclusive environment to explore passions and make an impact.