System Architect – Platform Engineering & Cloud
Caterpillar19 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture across application, platform, data, and integration layers.
- Create high-level designs, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical standards.
- Guide low-level designs and ensure implementations align with architectural intent.
- Write, debug, test, review, and maintain production-quality software and technical prototypes.
- Design cloud-native and distributed solutions across AWS and Azure.
- Establish reusable capabilities for identity, integrations, environments, containerization, CI/CD, and microservices.
- Define observability, reliability, resilience, recovery, and production-readiness practices.
- Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex cross-system production issues.
- Evaluate technologies and frameworks and drive architectural and engineering improvements.
- Mentor engineers and establish architecture, design, and code review standards across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on Java development experience.
- Production experience designing and implementing cloud-native systems on AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, data and integration patterns, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, relational databases, and modern software engineering practices.
- AWS and/or Azure Solution Architect certification is preferred.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.