Senior IT Analyst Applications (Senior Azure Cloud Engineer)

Overview

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer on the Azure Platform Services team within Caterpillar's Information Technology Division, building, deploying and operationally supporting Azure IaaS solutions on a global scale, with emphasis on SAP workloads.

What you'll do

• Build, migrate and manage Microsoft Azure IaaS solutions, including SAP workloads, VMs, VNets, App Services, Functions, Databases, Storage and Integration Services.
• Deploy or integrate cloud technologies based on business partner requirements using automation-first approaches.
• Enhance, follow and contribute to enterprise cloud designs, processes and governance.
• Serve as a technical SME for cloud infrastructure and platform services, providing troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance tuning across a complex global network.
• Support solutions running on Azure and work closely with senior engineers, architects and global teams.
• Assist teams with documentation, training, onboarding and platform usability.
• Build automated solutions for infrastructure deployment using PowerShell, Python, YAML, ARM Templates, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub), Azure CLI, VBS, Java, NodeJS, JSON, Bash and Azure Portal.
• Contribute to standardized templates, repeatable deployment processes and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Apply secure-by-design standards, identity best practices (Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault) and network security patterns.
• Participate in LTA (Logical Technical Architecture) reviews, operational excellence practices and cloud governance alignment.
• Support monitoring, logging, disaster recovery, backup and vulnerability remediation.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of Azure Cloud experience in application development, cloud operations or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure core services: IaaS (VMs, VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Storage, ASR).
• Experience automating deployments using PowerShell, Python, JSON, YAML, CI/CD and Azure DevOps (Microsoft VSTS).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and global network environments.
• Experience supporting or building cloud architectures in production environments.
• Ability to perform development/deployment assignments without close supervision.
• Ability to work directly on technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Ability to deploy or integrate infrastructure technology components based on requirements gathered from customers.
• Ability to perform integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components, with careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure infrastructure operations or applications development, with special emphasis on SAP workloads, networking, DNS, application services, security, distributed computing, databases and storage.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related information technology degree.
• Azure certifications such as AZ-120, AZ-900, AZ-104 or AZ-500.
• Experience using the SCRUM methodology.
• Experience working with IT security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and security vulnerability remediation activities.
• Strong verbal and written communication (English), teamwork, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving and customer service skills.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India; preferred base is the Whitefield PSN Office.
• Onsite, five days a week in the office.
• Responding to off-shift and weekend support calls is part of the role.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.