Cloud Operations Analyst

As a Cloud Operations Analyst, you will provide platform stability and production support for cloud-based services 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:

• 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.
• Respond to and manage production incidents impacting Azure services and Helios cloud APIs.
• 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 clear, actionable runbooks for operational support.
• Lead knowledge transfer sessions to ensure support teams are ready for production support.

• Systems Thinking: Strong understanding of cloud-hosted applications, APIs, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks. Ability to diagnose and resolve platform and integration issues, identify root causes, and proactively enhance operational processes, tooling, and documentation.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Experience troubleshooting access, session management, and application issues. Experience supporting production grade, customer-facing platforms in complex, multi-team environments, including on-call and incident response. 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.
• Performance Monitoring Tools: Hands on experience with Azure monitoring tools (Application Insights, Log Analytics/KQL, Azure Monitor) and observability platforms (Apigee, Kibana, AppDynamics, 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.

Considerations For Top Candidates:

• Proficiency scripting in Python and/or PowerShell to build automation and runbooks-as-code.
• Experience with API testing/clients (Bruno, Postman, curl) and REST integrations.
• Experience leveraging AI/automation tooling (e.g., agentic workflows, GitHub Copilot, MCP) to accelerate triage, RCA, and support workflows.
• Experience supporting multi-region cloud services and familiarity with identity platforms (Entra ID, Azure B2C, IAM/IdentityIQ, PingFederate, MFA).
• Ability to trace issues to source code and CI/CD pipelines across distributed services.
• Ownership of release/deployment and rollback processes (slot swaps, pipeline triggers, staged rollouts).

• This position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL or Irving, TX
• Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
• This position will require up to 0-25% travel

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., Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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

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., There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.

Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.