Senior AI Cloud Solutions Architect
Caterpillar1 day ago
Irving, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$148k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud-native architectures across AWS and Azure for AI, analytics, data platforms, and enterprise applications.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for automated provisioning, governance, and deployment of cloud resources.
- Design secure networking, connectivity, identity, data protection, and compliance-aligned controls across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Design, deploy, and optimize containerized workloads and orchestration platforms.
- Drive application modernization using microservices, event-driven architectures, and serverless computing.
- Lead cost optimization, observability, reliability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Troubleshoot complex platform, network, security, and integration issues.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend adoption across Global Finance.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of AWS and Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, governance, resiliency, and security services.
- Hands-on enterprise-scale experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
- Knowledge of IAM, RBAC, encryption, key and secrets management, network segmentation, and compliance-aligned architecture.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, and EKS; JFrog Artifactory experience is a plus.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms including Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with data lakes, API management, event-driven and messaging patterns, enterprise integration, and preferably ServiceNow workflows and APIs.
- Experience delivering highly available, observable, and disaster-recovery-capable solutions.
- Ability to translate business and technical requirements into designs, roadmaps, and governance processes.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and influence decisions across teams.
- 10+ years of cloud architecture, cloud engineering, or software/application architecture experience.
- Deep hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale hybrid and multi-cloud solutions across AWS and Azure.
- Experience with enterprise networking, including VPNs, private connectivity, DNS, load balancing, and network security.
- Experience implementing DevOps and CI/CD platforms, including artifact management with JFrog Artifactory.
- Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and the infrastructure required to support modern AI applications.
- Working knowledge of FinOps principles, architecture reviews, security assessments, and technology governance.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, subject to plan eligibility.
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Health lifestyle programs, Employee Assistance Program, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, adoption benefits, and tuition reimbursement.
- The position requires working onsite five days a week.
- Relocation is available.
- Location is Irving, Texas or Peoria, Illinois.
- Posting dates are September 15, 2026 through September 21, 2026.
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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.